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Sacred Works by G. A. Rigatti and other Venetian Composers in the Context of Musical Life in Koper in the 17th Century

The conference Early Music: Context and Ideas II was devoted to discussions. World-wide specialists on early music participated with short presentations of subjects related to previously published scholarly texts, followed by extensive discussions. The contribution connected with this project was discussed in the section Context and Meaning in the 17th-Century Sacred Music led by J. Kurtzman and R. Kendrick. The discussion confirmed the importance of the Slovenian contribution to the general trends in the research of Italian sacred music and its dissemination outside today’s Italy.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 28597805

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A Largely Self-Taught Composer Antonio Tarsia and his "Teachers": G. A. Rigatti, G. Legrenzi, Th. Orgiani, N. Monferrato, G. B. Bassani and Others

The contribution on A. Tarsia (1643–1722) from Koper was for the international circle of specialists a new subject, even though its real novelty lies above all in the hypothesis on his early music education gained within noble and academic circles. He continued to study music through performing and copying pieces by other composers. New are also first hints on his secular music activities. The paper was an important contribution of the Slovenian musicology to the general knowledge of Italian sacred music of the 17th c. and a welcome and necessary international promotion of national heritage.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 30604077

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Giacomo Genzo, a 19th-Century Musician and Composer in Koper

At the international meeting of the RISM group in Frankfurt B. Frelih presented a collection of music works of G. Genzo, and on the example of cataloguing his compositions in the RISM database discussed specific problems connected with the programme Kallisto that the Slovenian group helped to develop and implement. Discussed were specific problems of these documents and proposed solutions for a better functioning of the programme. At the same time the international musicological society learned more on the presented composer whose works are part of the Slovenian national cultural heriatge.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 29691693

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Mid-Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Dialogues and their Popularity in Koper

Research results of a comparative study on mid-seventeenth-century sacred dialogues preserved in music prints used in Koper at the time when the local composer A. Tarsia wrote his own dialogue were presented in the context of the biennial meeting of scholars specialising in Baroque music. 3 of the 16 pieces of this type were textually and musically compared to Tarsia’s and possible links pointed out. On the basis of collected secondary historical information a hypothesis was put forward on possible performance practices in Koper and local reception and production of this music genre.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 31597101

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The Office of S. Maurus of Poreč/Parenzo

The office of S. Maurus of Parenzo, found in the antiphoner of Isola (15th century), is so far the only known copy of this late-mediaeval literary and musical creation. The analysis of the work has revealed that the majority of its chants came into being as contrafacta on the basis of Gregorian items. In the process of adaptation the Gregorian melodies remained intact, whereas in the newly composed texts there are only slight reminiscences of the original contents.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 31362861