Project
Institute of Musicology
International Projects
EarlyMuse - A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies
A New Ecosystem of Early Music Studies
| Duration: | 21. 9. 2022 - 20. 9. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | CA21161 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | PhDr. Veselovská Eva PhD. |
| Annotation: | Early music, in all its breadth, and all its experimental dimensions, has been foundational to musicology as an academic discipline, and continues to play, in changing configurations, an essential role in the training courses and research programmes of musicologists. EarlyMuse aims to take this academic and artistic movement in new directions in both research and training by strengthening collaborative practices between all the stakeholders. Rethinking the scientific and experimental field, as well as the material and symbolic value of early music and its modes of promotion in the digital age and in the post-pandemic period, offers tremendous opportunities to revalorize a major part of European musical heritage. In order to address these challenges in all their complexity and diversity, the consortium brings together academic partners from 23 countries, with a network of music culture professionals and an industrial partner. EarlyMuse intends to chart new paths that will strengthen the unique place of early music in Europe, both in our intellectual and cultural practices and in its global appeal. Specifically, EarlyMuse will address six challenges: (1) scientific, (2) educational, (3) professional, (4) structural, (5) economic and (6) societal. The project will transform the scientific field, redraw the place of early music in higher education, attract original talent, deploy tools useful to emerging creative industries, and define public policy in the field of culture. |
PRAYTICIPATE - Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Modlitby vo svete neskorého stredoveku
| Duration: | 19. 9. 2024 - 18. 9. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | CA23143 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | PhDr. Veselovská Eva PhD. |
| Annotation: | For centuries, prayer has been central to people’s worldview, to their education and formation, their experience of religion and the Divine, to the creation of societal communities, and to structuring everyday life throughout Europe. Despite the ‘religious turn’ in the humanities, prayer is still often seen as ordinary or even self-evident. This has hitherto prevented a thorough understanding of the history of this powerful and complex phenomenon in the late medieval and early modern world. From a European perspective, this period was formative for the role of prayer in public settings and in people’s personal lives. The phenomenon is marked by plurality and diversity and the disparate nature of research on prayer calls for a strong collaborative international research network that will move toward creating a shared framework for the study of prayer in the Latin Christianity during the late medieval and early modern period. Studying prayer as a participatory practice on several levels (as a communal or social practice, using a variety of material devices (media, objects) that can evoke a spiralling, amplifying effect in the mind of the devotee) will lead to better understanding of prayer (and with it, the history of imagination, hope, and meditation) in its plurality. |
| Project web page: | https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23143/#tabs+Name:Description |
Early Music in Central Europe: Collaborated Research, Migrating Sources, Transregional Connections
Stará hudba v strednej Európe: spoločný výskum, migrujúce pramene, transregionálne vzťahy
| Duration: | 1. 11. 2023 - 1. 10. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | 22310209 |
| Program: | International Visegrad Fund (IVF) |
| Project leader: | PhDr. Veselovská Eva PhD. |
| Annotation: | Historical narratives on medieval music culture usually depict Central Europe as a marginal region with delayed reception of the newest repertories and with retarded development. This is based on insufficient presentation of music sources, their description and interpretation, as well as a misunderstanding of the specific cultural profile of the region. It does not correlate with narratives around music "centres", defined primarily on the knowledge of sources from the European West and South in the post-War period, when the study of church culture and music was marginalized or even forbidden by Communist regimes. New or renewed research on medieval liturgical music in all V4 countries in the last three decades is confronted by new methodologies and approaches, to which each country responded in a different way, developing different strengths – repertory inventories, fragment studies and musical palaeography (in Hungary, and in Slovakia), questions of transmission and hymnology in Czechia and monastic studies in Poland. The project creates the first opportunity for knowledge and methodology exchange between all four countries, with two goals: to build a larger research community with active knowledge and methodology exchange, and to develop common projects and publications that will secure firmer standing in future narratives on history and culture in Central Europe. |
National Projects
Historical Sources of Traditional Slovak Singing: Typology, Reconstruction, Interpretation
Historické pramene tradičného slovenského spevu: typológia, rekonštrukcia, interpretácia
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0100/22 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | prof. PhDr. Urbancová Hana DrSc. |
| Annotation: | The significance of historical research in today’s ethnomusicology is growing side by side with the growth of the source base which has been cumulated as the result of the conscious collecting and documentation activities of the last two centuries. The aim of the project is to carry out basic research on the historical sources of traditional Slovak singing from the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century which originated in the territory of Slovakia and in Slovak enclaves abroad. The research will focus primarily on written (notated and textual) manuscript collections and sound (phonographic) recordings from collections of key significance for Slovak and Central European ethnomusicology (Plicka, Bartók, Lineva), along with the preparation of critical editions. The project will include a proposal for the typology of the sources of traditional singing and its application to a model example of an innovative historical study of the song genre which is now facing extinction. |
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Identita a pamäť v hudbe 20. storočia: metamorfózy a interakcie
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0127/24 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Ščepán Michal PhD. |
| Annotation: | The topic of identity and memory has a long-term position in the discourse of the humanities. The two concepts are not disjunctive, moreover, in many cases they are connected with musical works. This mutual interaction therefore becomes an interesting subject for musicological research. The main research issue of the project is the investigation of the author's identity, its forms and transformations from the perspective of music historiography and music analysis. The question is how this particular form of identity manifests itself and what is the overall symbiosis with identities based on the cultural or social or ethnic basis. The subject of the research is partly also the opposite view of how music, through the reflection of certain themes and phenomena, becomes the bearer of collective memory, considered one of the main constituents of identity. The range of research topics mainly reflects domestic realities with the intention of their comparison in the broader contexts of the European music development. |
Multilingualism in Church Chant
Multilingvizmus v cirkevnom speve
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0116/24 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Ruščin Peter PhD. |
| Annotation: | The subject of the project is the research of the influence of multilingualism in church chant on its development on the territory of Slovakia from from the early modern period to the 20th century. The focus is on historical forms of church chant (liturgical chant, church hymns) recorded in written sources from our territory in different language versions (Latin, Czech, German, Hungarian, Slovak, Church Slavonic). The research focuses on the cultural and regional context of multilingualism in historical periods and confessional traditions. The aim of the project is to document the multilingual versions of church hymns on the basis of source research and to define the influence of multilingualism on character and coexistence of church chants from different confessional traditions. The project will result in new insights into the interplay between the musical-cultural and linguistic determinants of church chant not only in this country, but also in a wider geographical context. |
Networking and Migration in the Musical History of Slovakia in the 17th – 19th Centuries. Central European Contexts, Regional Specificities
Networking a migrácia v hudobných dejinách Slovenska 17. – 19. storočia: stredoeurópske kontexty, regionálne špecifiká
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0031/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | PhDr. Petőczová Janka CSc. |
| Annotation: | Research on musical culture in Slovakia is an important part of musicological research in Central Europe. It includes regional musicology and musical topography, which currently investigate the issue of networking of musical phenomena, the migration of musicians, the transmission of music and musical interactions in European contexts. These problems will be solved within the framework of revealing the historical changeability of musical life in Slovakia in the 17th-19th centuries in the context of Central Europe, especially in its variable administrative-administrative structures. Basic research will be focused on musical sources in selected regions (Bratislava,Spiš,Šariš counties) with the aim of preparing scientific monographs and studies, focused on the issues of cantorates in the early modern age, the spread of the musical repertoire, the education and migration of musicians in the European area, further to questions of bourgeois culture in an urban environment, musical personalities and musical works. |
Repertoire – Institutions – Transformations: Musical Culture in Slovakia from the Middle Ages to 1650
Repertoár - inštitúcie - premeny: hudobná kultúra na Slovensku od stredoveku do roku 1650
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0019/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Studeničová Hana PhD. |
| Annotation: | In the development of cultural history, the musical culture of towns and institutions in the territory of present-day Slovakia has played an important role. The preserved written sources from the period between 800-1650 document the earliest, often fundamental records of music in different sociocultural environments, of its creators and performers, and of the content or dissemination of the repertoire. Through complex, systematic heuristic research and analysis of written sources, it will be possible to bring new knowledge on transformations of the musical culture at the regional and transregional level, on the changes in musical repertoire across the centuries, on the social and cultural influences on the music, the influence of religious and political changes on the musical practice, or the migration of musical repertoire. This knowledge will be considered in an international context, with an emphasis on finding parallels in the Central European space, which should bring new interpretation of knowledge. |
Projects total: 8