Hudobná topografia Spiša v kontexte výskumu miest v ranom novoveku
Musical Topography of the Spiš/Zips Region with Regard to the Early Modern Period Cities

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to demarcate the musical topography of the Spiš/Zips region focusing on individual local settlements (towns, villages, monasteries, aristocratic residences). Creating a topographic network of Spiš in the Early Modern Period requires music-historical research at least from five angles of view: research on musical sources, on historical musical instruments, on chronicles and contemporaneous prints, on archival sources and research on historical maps. However, towns (civitas, oppidum) certainly form the basic topographic unit of research. The primary musical hubs in Spiš included the cities that joined Luther’s Reformation movement and had an ethnically mixed, prevailingly Slovak-German population. The specification of the music-topographic network of Spiš enables us to identify the locally and denominationally differentiated musical life of the towns of this region.

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