In the sociology of music, chamber music as a genre is usually seen as a manifestation of the bourgeois musical culture and activity. This paper tries to argue that the specific character of chamber music, its intimate nature and a certain indulgence in compositional co...

A continuous development of professionai musical activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be traced until after the Austro-Hungarian occupation of 1878; but, according to Dubrovnik sources, professional musicians, singers and players existed already in the medieval Bos...

The issue concerning the centre-oriented thinking in West-European music is defined from two perspectives. First it is dealt with from the point of view of Western metaphysics, that is the concept of the circle with a centre. This circle, which corresponds directly with...

After the death of the composer Avgust Armin Leban in 1879 a selection of his compositions was passed over by his brother Janko to F. Kuhac with the request that he might make an evaluation of them. On the basis of his examination of Leban's Latin Mass, Kyrie and Gloria...

The paper considers two aspects of the history of music of Istria which can be noted towards the end of the first half of the 17th century. First of all it is evident that G. Puliti was highly personal in his approach to parody technique, in which there was a certain te...

Giuseppe Michiele Stratico (31. 7. 1728 - after 1782) - the composer, violinist and descendant of noble families Stratico and Castelli di Chio from Zadar, Croatia, but originating from Italian colonies in Greece - was close to Giuseppe Tartini sometime during the period...