Zgodovina glasbe na Slovenskem, knjige 1, 3 in 4 [History of Music in the Slovenian Lands, vols. 1, 3, and 4]

Abstract

The new history of music in the Slovenian lands is a towering achievement of Slovenian musicologists of several generations, who have worked diligently on this edition for more than a decade. The first volume, edited by Jurij Snoj and covering the period before the end of the sixteenth century, i.e. until the unequivocal re-direction of the Slovenian lands to Catholicism, was published in 2012. It was followed by the fourth volume in 2019, edited by Gregor Pompe and dedicated to the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In 2021 the third volume, edited by Aleš Nagode and Nataša Cigoj Krstulović and covering the period from the founding of the Ljubljana Philharmonic Society (1794) until the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was released, both in print and as an electronic publication (DOI:/10.4312/9789610605270). The final volume, dedicated to music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, i.e. from the arrival of Jesuits to Ljubljana until the founding of the Philharmonic Society, will be published approximately in a year. In spite of this “gap” of two centuries, to be filled by the forthcoming second volume, it is already possible to review the three completed volumes, and to highlight the scope, goals and future impact of this history.