Professional paper

Josip Andreis's Contribution to the Croatian Music Lexicography

Ivona Ajanović-Malinar ; Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža", Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the article Josip Andreis’s work on two editions of Muzička enciklopedija (Music Encyclopaedia) published by the "Miroslav Krleža" Lexicographic Institute (the first edition in two volumes in 1958, 1963; the second edition in three volumes in 1971, 1974, 1977) is displayed. His multifold activity as the editor-in-chief of the Music Encyclopaedia first edition, then business organization within the Institute and the so-called Republic editorials, as well as work on the headword list including the definition of the length of the articles, and of the biographical articles scheme, terminology, and specific bibliographical instructions, is described. In addition, he organized calls for the authors specialized in some musical fields, and also organized the distribution of the articles to adjunct contributors. The selected bibliography of Andreis’s large-scale articles in the first and the second edition of the Music Encyclopaedia as well as his collaboration in the first edition in Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (Encyclopaedia of Yugoslavia) in eight volumes (1955-71), and his collaboration in the encyclopaedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (from the 7th vol., since 1958) are mentioned.
All data about his work in the Lexicographic Institute are set forth on the basis of the direct collaboration with Andreis, starting from the first edition of the Music Encyclopaedia, as well as on the search of the archival materials preserved fragmentarily in the Archive of the Lexicographic Institute.
As editor-in-chief, he gave meaning to and elaborated the first modern biographicterminological music encyclopaedia in Croatia, achieving in the two extensive volumes an exceptional balance between biographical articles and terminological entries. And the most valuable is that Andreis, following the efforts of distant predecessors (Jakov Mikalja, Ivan Belostenec and others), implemented the work in which all historical and theoretic-practical notions were terminologically defined and described in the modern way, starting from music forms and genres to instruments and theoretic-practical disciplines. In doing that, he laid the foundations of the modern music encyclopedism in Croatia.

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Hrčak ID:

47748

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/47748

Publication date:

20.11.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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