Lyudmila Ivanovna Shestakova, née Glinka

This paper describes the life and work of Lyudmila Ivanovna Shestakova (1816–1906), the younger sister and faithful companion of the Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. The focus is especially on her activities after her brother’s death, which were motivated by the wish to honour his memory and to spread his music and fame.

Reprezentacije inštrumentalne ljudske glasbe v slovenskih zvočnih množičnih medijih v obdobju med svetovnima vojnama

Prispevek predstavlja spremembe, ki jih je inštrumentalna ljudska glasba doživljala med svetovnima vojnama skozi razvoj novih zvočnih medijev – gramofonskih plošč z 78 o/min in radia. S predstavljanjem inštrumentalne ljudske glasbe v medijih, njeno popularizacijo in komercializacijo se je oblikovala splošno veljavna podoba t. i. slovenske inštrumentalne ljudske glasbe, ki je recipročno vplivala tudi na ustvarjanje ljudskih godcev.

The Music of Larisa Vrhunc

The Slovene composer Larisa Vrhunc has pursued an adventurous and impressive range of music, unashamedly modernist in its techniques and constantly innovative, with new techniques deriving from varied sources of inspiration.

The Subject of Holodomor in the Ukrainian Artistic Space

The Great Famine (Holodomor) is man-made famine that convulsed the Soviet republic of Ukraine in the 1930s. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government. The article aims to highlight specific historical, cultural and social conditions that contributed to the dynamics of the Holodomor theme in music. It focuses especially on the musical compositions of this historical tragedy performed at the Kyiv Music Fest Competition. We can observe the linguistic and musical semantics of the opus of tragic imagery, along with the ethnic motifs of the Ukrainian cultural space, including musical rhetorical figures of the Baroque period, Christian symbolism of suffering and salvation, infernal stylistics.

The Contribution of Anton Pogačar and Vida Matjan to the Music Culture of Montenegro

The prominent Slovenian musicians Anton Pogačar and Vida Matjan made an exceptional contribution to the development of the music culture of Montenegro in the second half of the twentieth century. The paper aims to highlight the most important segments of their professional activities in this context and present them to the wider musicological public.

Grieg and Violins

Violin was Edvard Grieg’s favourite orchestral instrument. This affinity expanded to other string family instruments and a string orchestra. The article aims to characterise Grieg’s two-movement cycles of miniatures for string orchestra, emphasizing the features of their orchestration. The analysis revealed that these cycles should be considered as original and creative orchestral compositions where the composer efficiently employs the possibilities of string instruments.

Laibacher Deutscher after the Congress of Laibach

Behind the scenes of the Congress of Laibach (modern day Ljubljana), a dance form called Deutscher came into existence and for a decade remained, in a specific local version, the most popular dance of bourgeois circles. This paper sheds light on the phenomenon of the Laibacher Deutscher within a broad social and cultural context and political background.

From a Yugoslav to a Balkan Star and Back

In this article, I deal with the public figure of the singer Lepa Brena in the context of the cultural and music politics in socialist Yugoslavia and in the war and post-war times, by focusing on her transition from a “genuine” Yugoslav star, through the period in which the Yugoslav label was not desirable, to the singer’s recent transformations in which she has been involved in the process of commodifying Yugonostalgia for repositioning her public figure in a new context.

Musikalisches Mitteleuropa im europäischen Kontext, oder: Was kann die Musikhistorie zur Bestimmung von Mitteleuropa beitragen?

Musikalisches Mitteleuropa im europäischen Kontext, oder: Was kann die Musikhistorie zur Bestimmung von Mitteleuropa beitragen?

Mitteleuropäische Kontexte der Franziskaner-Musikkultur im 17.–19. Jahrhundert

Mitteleuropäische Kontexte der Franziskaner-Musikkultur im 17.–19. Jahrhundert