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Words on Music in Northern Croatia and Slavonia during the 19th Century and until the World War I

The 19th century proved to be the starting-point of modern Croatian thought (written in Croatian and German) on the aesthetics of music, music criticism, music historiography, and musicology ane/or ethnomusicology. The basic aesthetic issues were nationalism in music, the Romantic theory of music as a language of the emotions, and Hanslick's idea of music as an autonomous art. Music criticism in the Croatian language was obviously directed towards promoting the national ideology, which was conceived in the period of the National Revival (1835-1850) and advocated by F. Kuhač in the second half of the century. At the turn of the century, Impressionist criticism was inaugurated by A. G. Matoš. The question of the national was also very important in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology and musical historiography. Folk song started to be collected in the first half of the century, and attention started to be paid in the field of music historiography to Croatian music history. The key person in the Croatian musicology/ethnomusicology and musical historiography of the 19th century was F. Kuhač (1834-1911), who was, after all, the first in Croatian to introduce the term musicology in the press as early as in 1886. During the last decade of the 19th century Vj. Novak (1859-1905) wrote the first general survey of music history in Croatia, which was not published until 1994.

Croatia; 19th century; 20th century; aesthetics of music; music criticism; musicology; ethnomusicology; music historiography

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