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The Historiography of Folk Music

From published books by Charles Burney to history of European folk music by Jan Ling, from Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (1832-1911) to Božidar Širola (1889-1956), very appreciate results of the research continued and synthesized almost all folk music heritage of European tradition. Croatian musicologists discussed what depends to the "national music heritage" and what to so-called "art music heritage". The historiographical thinking on folk music is not in correspondence with historiography of music in general – even at the field of music historiography in general, also there are problems of the identification of the real results. The survey of the historiographical thinking about folk music, meaning theoretical approach and European heritage, with examples from the field of the Croatian music, outlines this work. The case of this paper is to explore and demonstrate the sources: specific ones on glagolitic tradition. The earliest sources from the earliest times (9th-11th centuries) of possible music component on glagolitic tradition could be treated as unkown. Nevertheless, 1) they are historiographical sources from the later times (that means they are historiographical sources of the second degree) ; 2) they are textual sources, also liturgical sources with the possibility of the literary interpretation (from the "musicality" of the text) ; 3) they are both, the sources for the documented instructions, and on the position of music elements among prevaling other subjects of the sources (liturgical, specific textual, linguistic, etc.) ; 4) they, possibly are – the music sources. The purpose of this work is to show our knowledge about the sources of the glagolitic music tradition from the earliest time – on two levels: - as historiographical interpretation of the phenomena belonging to the folk music tradition, - as music itself. The work will also explore the most relevant steps in the time and space of the further living forms of that kind of the sources. The end goal is to interpret the part of the large orally transmitted tradition which has lasted over 10 centuries and represents a very sophisticated area of research – taking into account one small group of the sources (notted down and historiographically described), as an example of the synthesizing approach to the sources as the phenomena.

Croatia; historiography; folk music; glagolitic sources

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