Moravská královská města, Bratislava a Vídeň: shody a odlišnosti v městském hudebním prostředí v 16. a na počátku 17. století

Author(s): Hana Studeničová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2019

Systematic study of archival sources of a non-musical character in selected Moravian royal cities in the 16th and early 17th centuries has produced a series of parallels with cities of the Central European space, and above all with the nearest of them, Bratislava and Vienna. The following study aims to highlight one of the principal areas of urban musical culture: musical activity in city parish churches, with emphasis on the similarities and differences between individual cities. Cantors, schoolmasters, organists and city trumpeters, in other words the leading figures in urban musical culture in the 16th and 17th centuries, were paid partly from church funds but mainly from the city budget. Extant sources, in the form of municipal account books and books of church accounts, together with testamentary books and other written materials, provide valuable testimony on the specific musical duties of the cantor and his pupils, the church choirs’ repertoires, and the duties of city trumpeters, which were more or less correspondent in the individual cities.

Piesňový žáner trávnic v slovenskej zborovej hudbe 20. storočia

Author(s): Kristína Gotthardtová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

Meadow songs (lúčne piesne, trávnice) are a folk song genre which was widespread in the mountain regions of Slovakia, as part of the traditional song repertoire of women. In the 19th century they caught the attention of collectors and composers, in connection with the formation of a Slovak national and cultural identity. During the 20th century they acquired a central significance for several generations of Slovak composers. The traditional singing of the meadow songs gave inspiration to composers in terms of musical form, multipartsinging, metre and rhythm, harmony, sonorousness, and the line-up of singers in the choir. Taking the example of selected composers and their compositions for choirs, an analysis is made of the diverse approaches in their treatment of the folk model. The analysis identified several stages in the composers’ work with folk material: from simple arrangements to restylisations where the composer has altered the original folk tune more significantly.

Eva Szórádová: Bratislavskí hudobní nástrojári

Author(s): Andrej Čepec / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

Eva Szórádová: Bratislavskí hudobní nástrojáriNitra : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, 2019, 289 s. ISBN 978-80-558-1378-3

Eva Krekovičová: Piesne a etnická identifikácia Slovákov v Maďarsku. Výskum z obdobia 1991 – 2017.

Author(s): Hana Urbancová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

Eva Krekovičová: Piesne a etnická identifikácia Slovákov v Maďarsku. Výskum z obdobia 1991 – 2017 Bratislava : Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV; Veda-vydavateľstvo SAV; v spolupráci s Výskumným ústavom Slovákov v Maďarsku, 2019, 263 s. ISBN 978-80-224-1698-6

Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Halleschen Waisenhaus und dem Königreich Ungarn sowie dem Fürstentum Siebenbürgen im 18. Jahrhundert, medzinárodná interdisciplinárna konferencia z cyklu „Internationale Begegnungen“, Hallen, 18. – 19. október 2018

Author(s): Janka Petőczová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2019

Figured Bass Instruction Among Franciscans in 18th- and 19th-Century Slovakia

Author(s): Ladislav Kačic / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Figured bass instruction, which was fundamental for organ playing, was at a high level among Franciscans in Slovakia in the 19th and 20th centuries. They used authoritative textbooks, whether in translations – the Czech-language, though strongly Slovakized, translation of an older textbook by J. D. Heinichen Neu erfundene und gründliche Anweisung [...] zu volkommener Erlernung des General-Basses (1711), and the Slovak translation of J. G. Albrechtsberger’s textbook Neue vermehrte Auflage der Kurzgefassten Methode den Generalbass zu erlernen (c. 1791) – or their own Latin textbook Praxis Authentica Pulsandi Organum (c. 1768) by P. Pantaleon Roškovský OFM, which he compiled according to handbooks by M. Gugl (1719), J.B. Samber (1704), J.D. Heinichen (1728), as well as J.J. Fux (1725) and other authors.

Po stopách Bélu Bartóka – piesňová tradícia v obci Dražovce pri Nitre

Author(s): Anikó Hugyivár Sebők / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2018

Slovenské ľudové piesne, a collection of Slovak folk songs by Béla Bartók (1881–1945) was produced on the basis of field reserach conducted in the years 1906–1918, though the three parts of this collection were published gradually only from the middle of the 20th century (1959, 1970, 2007). The greater part of the song material from the Ponitrie region in this collection comes from the village of Dražovce pri Nitre (109 entries). In the article we address the influence of Bartók’s collecting activity on the development and contemporary state of the song tradition in the village of Dražovce. We trace the memories of local inhabitants of Bartók’s collecting work, handed down in this village as part of local memory. Comparison of the historical entries with the contemporary register highlights not only the long life of part of this repertoire with its variant mutations, but also the powerful awareness among the inhabitants of Bartók’s activity in this village.

Eva Veselovská – Rastislav Adamko – Janka Bednáriková: Stredoveké pramene cirkevnej hudby na Slovensku

Author(s): Štefánia Demská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2018

Eva Veselovská – Rastislav Adamko – Janka Bednáriková: Stredoveké pramene cirkevnej hudby na SlovenskuBratislava : Ústav hudobnej vedy Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2017, 279 s. ISBN 978-80-89135-38-7

Hana Urbancová (ed.): Ethnomusicologicum V. Tradičná piesňová kultúra etnických minorít: historické pramene, hudobnoštýlová stratifikácia, nositelia

Author(s): Kristína Gotthardtová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2018

Hana Urbancová (ed.): Ethnomusicologicum V. Tradičná piesňová kultúra etnických minorít: historické pramene, hudobnoštýlová stratifikácia, nositelia. Bratislava : Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV, 2017, 280 s. ISBN 978-80-89135-39-4

Notated Sources from Medieval Europe / Medieval Hungary : Transregional Research and Online Database Building, medzinárodný workshop, 24. októbra 2017

Author(s): Veronika Garajová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2018

The 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, Ľubľana, Slovinsko, 24. – 27. augusta 2016

Author(s): Jana Belišová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

Karel IV. (1316 – 1378) a hudební odkaz jeho doby. Charles IV (1316 – 1378) and the Musical Legacy of His Era. Medzinárodná muzikologická konferencia, Praha, 10. – 11. novembra 2016

Author(s): Eva Veselovská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

Harmonické preferencie ako štýlový znak skladateľskej poetiky. Príspevok k charakteristike úprav ľudových piesní pre klavír Miloslava Francisciho

Author(s): Eva Ferková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

This article presents an application of software instruments for detection and quantification of the incidence of eleven chords of classical harmony in three groups of songs. The first two groups consist of selections from piano adaptations of Slovak folk songs by Miloslav Francisci entitled Trávnice I (Haymaking Songs I: a selection of 78 compositions from 100) and Trávnice II (Haymaking Songs II: a selection of 13 compositions from 100). The third is a group of 38 original songs by Ján Levoslav Bella, which we acquired already in digital form in MIDI format. The software instruments are described in the article, and in the tables of results of computer analysis of the three groups we present findings on the percentage incidence of the individual chords in each song individually. This result may be regarded as new information about the harmonic preferences of the composers, in terms of the selection of chords for harmonisation and musical creation. Between Francisci and Bella there is an obvious difference in preference: Bella worked with a greater variety of types of chords, and in this regard his compositional style is more complex and expressively more multiform.

Zberateľky slovenských ľudových piesní. K účasti žien na zberateľskom hnutí 19. storočia

Author(s): Hana Urbancová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

The participation of women in the 19th century collecting movement has hitherto received only marginal attention. Taking the example of Slovakia, evidence is provided of the contribution of women to the documentation of folk songs. Using published editions of songs and manuscript sources, a database was produced of 46 women who were active in collecting Slovak folk songs from the early years of the 19th century to 1918, with overlaps also into the more recent period. The majority of these women collectors came from the Slovak intellegentsia, whose core membership came from the urban middle class. Based on the collected song material, we explored a hypothesis on how gender category (identity) influenced the results of collecting work. A definition of women’s concept of collecting was deduced from the contemporary preference for the national language and the role of women in its diffusion in private and public life (focusing especially on the texts of the songs) and from analysis of the genre structure of the documented song repertoire.

Svadba a svadobné piesne Slovákov v Starej Pazove

Author(s): Kristina Lomen / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

This article maps the wedding ceremony and its song repertoire in the Stará Pazova locality during two time periods: the first half of the 20th century and the second half of the 20thcentury, indicating their developmental changes. The author provides a succinct description of the wedding ceremony, considered in its individual phases, and traces the incidence of songs, including the category of wedding ceremony songs. The song repertoire documented in the wedding context was classified in terms of basic typology and musico-stylistic layers. In conclusion, there is an indication of the potential for comparison of the wedding ceremony and wedding ceremony songs with material from the territory of Slovakia, especially from the regions from which inhabitants of Stará Pazova come.

Piesne z repertoáru súčasníkov Evy Studeničovej. K neznámym zápisom Karola Plicku z obce Moravský Svätý Ján

Author(s): Miriam Timková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

Karol Plicka (1894–1987) documented a song repertoire from the singer Eva Studeničová in the village of Moravský Svätý Ján in the early 1920s. He regarded this woman as an exceptional figure among singers, who transcended the limits of the local culture. This article is devoted to a reconstruction of the records of songs which Plicka acquired from other singers in this village. The song records not only contribute to comparison of song variants and rendition styles but they also reveal the contemporary condition and preservation of traditional singing in the local culture. Based on source criticism, a song repertoire extending to 88 songs from 12 singers was identified. This song material represents a valuable supplement to Plicka’s register of songs from Eva Studeničová and provides an opportunity to compare the exceptional singer with several bearers of the local song tradition.

45th Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, medzinárodná muzikologická konferencia, Praha, 4. – 8. júla 2017

Author(s): Eva Veselovská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2017

Po stopách Budínskeho/Bratislavského antifonára III

Author(s): Eva Veselovská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016

The Buda or so-called Bratislava Antiphonary III (Archive of the City of Bratislava) is one of the most important sources of music culture in medieval Hungary. It is one of the representative manuscripts of the principal ecclesiastical centre of the country, Estergom. The manuscript was produced in the last third of the 15th century under the powerful Renaissance influence of the scriptorium in Buda, or directly in the Buda scriptorium itself. It is the only manuscript source which documents the influence of the art of the Buda Royal Court in Bratislava. By a detailed comparison and exact accordance of codicological and musicopalaeographic components, several lost folios of the Buda/Bratislava Antiphonary III were identified in the recent past. Seven pages of this manuscript are currently held by the St. Adalbert Society in Trnava and one torn folio is lodged in the Archive of the Slovak National Museum; 38 fragments from the second part of this manuscript may be found in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.

Rekonštrukcia piesňového repertoáru Evy Studeničovej zo zápisov Karola Plicku

Author(s): Miriam Timková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016

During field research in the Záhorie region the collector Karol Plicka (1894 – 1987) was impressed by the singer Eva Studeničová from the village of Moravský Svätý Ján. Although he published only a small fragment of the songs (43 records), the song collection Eva Studeničová Sings (1928)is the first song monograph in Slovakia on an important bearer of the song tradition. Reconstruction of the complete song repertoire which the collector recorded from this singer relied on both manuscript and published records. The result was a repertoire amounting to 209 songs gathered from this singer. Apart from that, 88 song records which Plicka recorded from other singers in the village have been identified. Together with the songs from Eva Studeničová’s repertoire, this makes a corpus totalling 297 songs, which Plicka documented in this locality.

Tradycje śląskiej kultury muzycznej / Traditions of Silesian Musical Culture. Vroclav, 2. – 4. marca 2016, medzinárodná muzikologická konferencia

Author(s): Janka Petőczová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016