Arti musices, Vol. 40 No. 1-2, 2009.
Original scientific paper
In Search of a Method. On Josip Andreis's Historiographic Approach
Nikša Gligo
orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-4411
; Muzička akademija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The result of the use of Josip Andreis’s historiographic methods in his four "Histories of Music" - listed in the literature under numbers 1 to 4 - are determined from the outset as compilatory positivism. But this research deals only with his general histories of music. "The History of Croatian Music" is not taken into account because it presupposes special research that has not yet been carried out, so that the compilation would actually have been impossible. Various aspects of Andreis’s methods have been analyzed in this study, for example, his attitude toward historiography (based on the Introduction to 2), the forewords, afterwords and supplements in his "Histories", the attitude toward the periodization, the functions of pictorial illustrations and very extensive bibliographies (only 3 does not contain any). It is interesting to note that Andreis rarely refers to bibliographical units. His discourse is mainly oriented toward the literary persuasiveness of his statements and he leaves it to his reader to extend the discourse by consulting the given bibliographical units.
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45299
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Publication date:
20.11.2009.
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