Missa sopra la Bergamasca – A Contribution to the Research of J. K. Dolar's Creativity

Abstract

The article represents the Missa sopra la Bergamasca by Janez Krstnik Dolar, which has not yet been published. After having reconstructed the score, the author tries to analyse its structure in view of the pattern of the bergamasque, its frames, which are outlined by the text of the mass ordinarium, the cast of parts, which makes possible a variegated concertato style, the metrics as well as technical elements, the analysis of which reflects an inventive style from the middle baroque era, which however – with regard to the author – seems to open several compositional questions.