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Music, Academies and Learned Societies in the Croatian Lands from the 16th to the 18th Centuries

In Croatian lands, during the 16th-18th centuries period, there existed at least eight academies and three learned societies. Among the known ones, five were founded in Dubrovnik, two in Zadar, and one in Rovinj, Ozalj, Split and Hvar respectively. One was active in the 16th, seven in the 17th and five in the 18th century (two among them also in the 17th century). A poorly preserved and investigated documentation (programmes) on the activities of these groups of learned people did not offer any direct trace of music. Their preoccupation were obviously predominantly literary, translatory and lexicographical in character. However, the preserved printed or manuscript works by Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Miho Monaldi, Giulio Zaccharia, Ivan Tanzlinger-Zanotti, Ivan Belostenec, Francesco Maria Appendini, Ardelio Della Bella, and perhaps some other authors, members of these academies and learned societies, indirectly witness about musical topics (aesthetics of music, music historiography, music lexicography) which very probably made part of their discussions, conversations, correspondence and other forms of communication among their members. It has been stated that active music-making (composing and/or performing) made part of activities by some academy members such as Đuro Matijašević, Vladislav Menčetić, Giacomo Pisa and Antun Sorkočević. Nevertheless, no evidence has been provided if or how these direct music activities made part of their activities within respective societies. The topic aroused here would demand, for its full elaboration, the scope of a much more extensive work. If it happens in future, it would be our pleasure to see this paper as its possibly useful starting point.

learned societies; academies; Croatian lands; Dubrovnik, Zadar; Rovinj; Split; Hvar; ozaljski krug

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