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The article is devoted to the manuscript collection of solo violin sonatas with basso continuo by Aldebrando Subissati (1606-77). It supplements the pioneering work of Paolo Peretti - 'Le sonate per violino e basso continuo di Aldebrando Subissati sonator famossissimo' (Fossombrone 1606-1677) ('Recercare' IX (1997) pp. 19-47). Subissati began his career in Rome, where he became known as the violinist...
The State Archive in Modra near Bratislava holds a Piarist musical collection which consists of 1037 archive units. Among other things, it contains manuscripts and prints from the Piarist monastery at Podoliniec, where one can discover works of many composers, both named and anonymous. They include works by composers who worked within the sphere of Polish cultural influence, among them a group of...
The practice of making use of existing compositions is not new, but in spite of this it has not so far received detailed analysis. The terminology used in the Polish language in describing the phenomenon of transcription of a musical work does not provide a consistent framework either. The volume of transcriptions of the works of Chopin, which can be counted in thousands, gives one good reason for...
Frederick Hintz (1809-90), who came to the Kingdom of Poland from Prussia, was one of the leading representatives of the musical industry in Kalisz before the arrival in that town of the Fibiger family, whose pianos and pianofortes, produced from 1878, quickly came to dominate the local market. He was the second piano builder from Kalisz after Georg Lindemann (c. 1792-1849) whose instuments have survived...
In traditional African communities we encounter a somewhat different perception of music from that found in the societies of the West. Firstly, it is perceived mainly in social and not aesthetic terms; secondly, interaction and communication which take place through music are of primary significance. Music fulfils functions which in other kinds of communities are entrusted to a variety of institutions:...
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