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The Tradition of Liturgical Polyphony on the Eastern Adriatic Coast

The corpus of two-part chants in simple polyphony in Croatian regions comprises a relatively great number of chants, most of which belong to two-part masses. Their unbroken continuity can be followed in the books of liturgical music of the eastern Adriatic coast from the 13th to the 18th century. The notations of these manuscripts are an important constituent part of a specific phenomenon of the history of West-European church music, the development of which started in the period dominated by musical forms represented by the Notre Dame school of Paris. Today this relatively unknown corpus of chants in the style of medieval polyphony stemming from Croatian localities (Zagreb, Imotski, Knin, Visovac, Osor, Cres, Lošinj, Trogir, Zadar, Hvar, Dubrovnik), amounts to about one hundred mostly two-part chants to be sung in the liturgical service of mass and the officium. In Croatia the tradition of this singing survived for a period much longer than in any other part of Europe, to the end of the Eighteenth and beginning of the Nineteenth- Century.

Croatia, Dalmatia, polifonia semplice, Zadar, Sanctus, Hvar, Benedicamus

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