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Fifteenth- and Sixteenth- Century Polyphony in a Gradual from the Badija Franciscan Monastery near Korčula

Paveł Gancarczyk ; Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

The Music Archive of the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik holds a Gradual de sanctis (MS XII), containing short polyphonic compositions. Of particular interest is the two-part setting of the introit In medio ecclesie, written in black mensural notation during the first half of the fifteenth century. The manuscript also contains four-part Mass responses belonging to the current of simple polyphony, dating from the sixteenth century. The author puts forward arguments for the view that these entries were made in one of the Dominican monasteries in the territory of the Republic of Dubrovnik. The manuscript then found its way to the Franciscan monastery on the island of Badija near Korčula, and was moved to Dubrovnik after the Second World War.

Keywords

15th- and 16th-century polyphony; Dominicans; Republic of Dubrovnik; Badija; Franciscan monastery; Dubrovnik; Franciscan monastery

Hrčak ID:

31557

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31557

Publication date:

20.12.2008.

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