The Presence of the Past: The Earliest Musical Notations of Folk Music in Croatia

The oldest musical notation of Croatian folk music dates from the mid-16th century. Already in the Renaissance diverse intentions regarding notation came to the fore: some wanted to record folk music as faithfully as possible, others wanted to intervene as authors. In the church, under the influence...

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Published in:World of music 1998-01, Vol.40 (3), p.9-24
Main Author: Stipcevic, Ennio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
16th century
Croatian Music
Cultural Influences
Folk music
Folk poetry
Folksongs
Music transcriptions
Musical aesthetics
Musical notation
Musical Scores
Pastoral poetry
Religious Influences
Renaissance music
Singing
Slavic culture
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Summary:The oldest musical notation of Croatian folk music dates from the mid-16th century. Already in the Renaissance diverse intentions regarding notation came to the fore: some wanted to record folk music as faithfully as possible, others wanted to intervene as authors. In the church, under the influence of the Reformation and later the Counter-Reformation, tendencies emerged to single out the components of folk music that could be used for missionary and pastoral work. In the Baroque period transcriptions of Croatian folk music were no longer engrossed in the need for precision and faithfulness. The Enlightenment could no longer reconcile the principles of faithfulness with its own ideology. So even today the "myth of otherness" is sometimes still paradoxically and ahistorically present in attitudes toward the oldest notations of folk music and especially towards the folk history of "small nations" like Croatia.
ISSN:0043-8774