Writers and chanters in the nineteenth century as keepers of the tradition of Serbian church music
2014
In this paper, parts of the memoir literary works from the second half of the
nineteenth century are presented as important sources for the research of
Serbian traditional church chant. The testimonies on church music from
diaries, memoirs and autobiographical notes by famous Serbian writers,
statesmen and politicians, namely Jovan Subotic, Jakov Ignjatovic, Milan
Savic, Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja, Todor Stefanovic Vilovski, Vladimir
Jovanovic and Kosta Hristic, were analyzed. Those writings bring to light a
time when church chant was appreciated as an important part of the spiritual,
folk heritage and had an important role in everyday culture of Serbian people
both in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia.
The authors wrote about musical skills of chanters from clerical, church
circles and about the practice of chanting among school teachers. They also
described different kinds of musical performances of church chant among
laymen and children. These sources testify to writers’ general and musical
education and experiences, to their environment and its relation to the
aesthetics of spiritual folk tradition. This paper also analyzes sources in
the context of the history and theory of literature, having in mind the
authors’ commentary techniques and narrative style. Those issues are
discussed in relation to the poetics of romanticism, Biedermeier and realism
in Serbian literature. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
177004: Identiteti srpske muzike od lokalnih do globalnih okvira: tradicije,
promene, izazovi]
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