Arti musices, Vol. 52 No. 1, 2021.
Izlaganje sa skupa
https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okflzq9
Initiation of the Department of Musicology at the Academy of Music in Zagreb – From Personal Memories to General Context
Ivan Supičić
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This introductory speech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Department of Musicology at the Academy of Music in Zagreb presents the author’s memories of the people who participated in the foundation of the Department. It also outlines the circumstances which prevailed at the time and the time preceding the foundation, the »prehistory« of the Department. The main and most meritorious initiators responsible for the Department’s foundation were Josip Andreis, Milo Cipra, Marijan Koletić and Krešimir Kovačević, with the active participation of the author of this text. Professor Andreis played an essential role in this event as the head of the then Department of History and Theory at the Academy, also being the most prominent music historian in Croatia at the time and, inter alia, being the author of several books on general and Croatian music history, as well as the editor-in-chief of the first edition of the Muzička enciklopedija [Music Encyclopaedia] (1958-1963) published by the Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb. The launch of the Department, then called the Division, was immediately preceded by the foundation of a small research centre called the »Musicological Institute« at the Academy, which also provided professional and technical support to two important journals launched at the time: Arti musices (in Croatian), which dealt primarily with Croatian music, and the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music / IRASM (in English, German and French), which dealt with pluridisciplinary questions regarding music in general. That was an important basis for the establishment of the Department, giving it added value and strength. The then atmosphere, a consequence of the emergence of the reformist political movement »Croatian Spring«, was in favour of undertaking these research, publishing and teaching-educational projects. It happened in spite of the present threat of the ruling Yugoslav communist political regime, which at its discretion easily made ideological accusations in the field of art sciences, including education, for alleged nationalism and clericalism, formalism and non-Marxism. These jeopardies were successfully evaded during the inception of the Department of Musicology, naturally with some self-censorship. The initiative to start the Department was, after all, marked by an effort to achieve greater freedom in this area, but also in science in general. Moreover, musicology has proven itself not only as an independent and autonomous science of specific values, but also as an ancilla musicae, a scientific discipline in the service of learning and valuing music and the art of music, with special regard to their highest achievements and accomplishments.
Ključne riječi
Zagreb Academy of Music; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; musicology; 1970; Josip Andreis
Hrčak ID:
261043
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.7.2021.
Posjeta: 795 *