On the website of the Abbey of Solesmes (which is celebrating its 1000th year since its foundation in 1010) we can read: In 1833, a young priest of the diocese of Le Mans, Dom Prosper Guéranger, undertook the restoration of benedictine monastic life on the site of an old priory at Solesmes, after forty years […]
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Musicologie médiévale
Musicologie médiévale: Hoc rete factum est ut musicologae mediaevisti, gregorianistae et aliae personae quae gregorianum vel mediaevalem cantum amant inter se facile communicare possint. Hoc rete poterit sic unusquisque non tantum optime dare operam, ut cognoscatur opus suum sed etiam cum hominibus novissime cognitis convenire. Nolite haesitare ut aliis membris vocetis… This network was created […]
Continue ReadingAndrea Meščanová: Renaissance historical sacred music works in Slovak territory
In the territory of Slovakia the works of distinguished vocal polyphony authors had been spread in the 16th century period in the cultural environment of modern towns carrying signs of music centres. Church musical production was closely connected with the performing of town schools pupils, who under cantor’s supervision sang regularly choral and polyphonic chants […]
Continue ReadingEva Veselovská: Medieval Church Music Sources from the Territory of Slovakia
Historical works of monodic liturgical music from the territory of Slovakia represent valuable source material, thanks to which we can reconstruct medieval music culture of our area. There have been preserved only a little number of the complete manuscripts in Slovakia. The majority of the codices originate in the 14th–15th centuries. Manuscripts of the Former […]
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