No. 9 (2009): Music in the Context of Urban Culture

The ninth issue of the journal Musicology appears in the year that
will remain remembered by marking the centenary of the birth of Ljubica Marić, one of the most prominent artistic figures of the Serbian cultural history of the twentieth century. Under the auspices of UNESCO, as well as all the major national institutions – the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Science, the Secretariat for Culture of Belgrade and others – this jubilee of Ljubica Marić was marked by a series of inspired concerts and by two important, notable events that were organised by associates of SASA Institute of Musicology, in cooperation with SASA. This was a representative exhibition Mystery – Silence – Creation by Dr. Melita Milin, who is also the author of the first extensive publication devoted to the life and work of Ljubica Marić. Credit for the executive, modern visual identity of this exhibition organised in SASA Gallery (November 4 –
December 15) goes to Milan Janjić and Nenad Marković. Melita Milin was the initiator and main organiser of the international scientific conference Spaces of Modernism: Ljubica Marić in Context (Belgrade, November 5–7). With their profound research and fresh views, twenty six participants, twelve of whom were eminent musicologists from abroad, widened the horizons of previous knowledge and illuminated the work of Ljubica Marić from new angles.
The present issue of the Musicology joins in the celebration of this
jubilee. It is clearly shown on the front cover that depicts the composer’s desk covered with a collage of documents from her private legacy. In a separate section – Celebrating the Centenary – the article by Zorica Makević brings her specific view to the the music of Ljubica Marić: “her music is steeped in the mystery of the beginning and the end, which meet in eternity… in its one tone and in its entire course, it grasps the whole of time and existence”.