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

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

Métsko-gotická notácia na Slovensku v období stredoveku

Author(s): Eva Veselovská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2018

Messine-Gothic notation is the most frequently used medieval notation on the territory of Slovakia. Over 3/4 of all complete manuscripts or fragments document the Messine-Gothic notational system in the time period from the first half of the 14th century to the beginning of the 16th century. In Slovakia it is documented in the former capitular libraries in Bratislava, Spiš Chapter, and other cultural and ecclesiastical centres. Messine-Gothic notation from the territory of Slovakia exhibits a clear stylistic structure, which may be divided territorially into two extensive areas. The western group of extant monuments (Bratislava, western and most of central Slovakia) inclines to the scribal tradition of the Austrian and Moravian notational workshops (Bratislava Antiphonaries I, IIa, IIb, IV, Bratislava Missal “H” etc.). The eastern group around Spiš Chapter (eastern Slovakia: Spiš Chapter, Levoča, Košice, Prešov; part of central Slovakia: Banská Štiavnica) in style and form approximates to the Polish manuscripts from Krakow (Spiš Gradual, Spiš Antiphonary and others.).

Trojkráľové piesne a koledy v slovenskom repertoári z ústnej tradície

Author(s): Hana Urbancová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2018

Traditional songs and carols for the feast of the Epiphany (Three Magi) were sung during ritual processions with carol-singing as part of folk games, and also independently as procession songs. The Slovak repertoire from the oral tradition includes two different song types, which were associated exclusively with this feast and are widespread in most of the regions of Slovakia. In the text component, apart from individual sequences of the Three Magi story, there are also contaminations from further layers of the Christmas repertoire (secular carols and pastoral songs). The tunes have stylistic features which mark them out from the historical layers of traditional Slovak music culture. They are indicative of connections with an analogous repertoire from other regions of Central Europe on the one hand, and on the other hand with the repertoire from hymn books as a part of the written tradition.

Życie artystyczne prowincji środkowoeuropejskiej na przełomie XIX-XX wieku: przemiany, formy i funkcje. Kalisz (Poľsko), 19. – 20. október 2017

Author(s): Jana Laslavíková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2018

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

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.

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

21st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music. Paríž, 9. – 13. marca 2016

Author(s): Hana Urbancová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016

Max Reger – ein nationaler oder ein universaler Komponist? Zum 100. Todestag des Komponisten. Internationale Musikwissenschaftliche Konferenz. Lipsko, 11. – 14. mája 2016

Author(s): Jana Lengová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2016