No. 16 (2014): Aspects of Performance in (Ethno)Musicology I

The act of performance alone is extremely inspiring for observation from different aspects, in the fields of both musicology and ethnomusicology, and particularly where these two disciplines converge. Dedication to the Aspect of Performance in (Ethno)Musicology as a topic for the next two numbers of Muzikologija reflects the liveliest interest shown by scholars in various forms of performance in the domain of artistic, church/religious, traditional, world music, popular music from different periods, and in various geographical and cultural environments. The issue contains works on artistic and church music: from semiotic perspectives in relation to the issues of performance, through an informed performance of Haydn’s sonatas, to Serbian salon music and church singing in the nineteenth century. Musicologists and ethnomusicologists have also devoted several works to the peripheral areas of two disciplines: the questions of ideological and political aspects of the work of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic, as well as a work concerning a world music ensemble in England born with roots in Serbia.  Anniversary of the greats of our musical culture – one hundred years from the deaths of Davorin Jenko and Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac – has their own separate section within a thematic unit dedicated to Jenko and Mokranjac.