Arti musices, Vol. 52 No. 1, 2021.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/mjrl3u7ze9
Thus it Began. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Musicology at the Academy of Music in Zagreb
Koraljka Kos
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
From the commencement of the professionalization of the Croatian Music Institute’s music school in the 1890s, and later at the Conservatory and the Academy of Music, music history courses were present as constituents for the development of the humanistic profile of future musicians. From 1928 to 1939 musicologist Dragan Plamenac led a private department of music history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. After the Second World War, in 1948, Josip Andreis founded the Department of History and Theory at the Academy of Music, which with its curricula, and especially the topics of graduate theses discussing Croatian music, in a way anticipated the future Department of Musicology. In the 1960s, after the abatement of socialist-realist aesthetics and in a favourable historical as well as cultural moment of opening-up to contemporary art, Ivan Supičić initiated the foundation of the Department of Musicology. In spring of 1969, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was contacted and in 1970 a double-subject study was founded, with musicology at the Academy of Music and one related field at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. After the preparatory work and the development of curricula in accordance with European standards, classes began in the autumn of 1970. Concurrently with its activity began the previously established Musicological Institute and two scientific journals were launched: the Croatian Musicological Yearbook Arti musices and the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, thus ensuring the interaction of scientific and pedagogical work and the publishing of scientific results in Croatia and abroad. Classes at the Department have been gradually enriched with subjects from systematic musicology and ethnomusicology and the number of graduate students (by fall of 2020) is approximately 230.
Keywords
Zagreb Academy of Music; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; musicology; 1970; Josip Andreis; Ivan Supičić
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Publication date:
15.7.2021.
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