Thanks to the works of George Enescu, Romanian music achieved its first breakthrough onto the European scene in the years preceding World War I. In the inter-war period the number of Romanian composers who joined modern ...

This article investigates the performative relationship among folklore, the market, and the state through an analysis of the politics of Bulgarian wedding music. In the socialist period wedding music was condemned by the ...

This text describes the Library of the Institute of Musicology of the SASA in the continuity of its existence since the foundation of the Institute in 1948 until today. The gradual enlargement of its funds is taken account ...

From 1980 onwards, Peter Kivy has put forward that music does not so much express emotions but rather is expressive of emotions. The character of the music does not represent the character or mood of the composer, but ...

The first foreign review of the general history of music translated to Serbian language was Karl Nef's Einführung in die Musikgeschichte. It was published in Belgrade, in 1937. During the '70s and '80s of the 20th century, ...

This study has two parts: a general theory of experiment, and a descriptive part about Romanian experimental music in the second half of the 20th century. An experiment is an adventure and its nature depends on negation. ...

Le mot texture désigne, selon la définition du dictionnaire Robert, la disposition des fils d'une chose tissée, s'appliquant tout naturellement aux principles du tissage et, par extension, peut concerner l'arrangement d' ...

This article deals with the orchestral opus of Petar Bergamo, a Croat composer whose most productive period was linked to Beograd, Serbia where he lived and worked at the time. In four works: First Symphony overture-phantasy ...

Propaganda played a very important role during Fascism; the kind of propaganda used by Mussolini to build a totalitarian state was to a very large extent based on his own personality cult, on the myth of the leader. Despite ...

The relationship between music and identity became a commonplace theme in ethnomusicology beginning in the early 1980s. This article surveys all 17 articles published in the journal Ethnomusicology in the last 25 years ...