The Research Situation of Croatian Choral Music Creativity with Particular Insight into the Studies Published in the Journal Arti musices (1969-2009). A Contribution to Croatian Music Historiography Research in the 20th Century

Opsežnost pisane građe o zborskoj glazbi, što je nastajala iz pera brojnih autora tijekom 20. stoljeća do u naše doba, a osobito raznovrsnost i raspršenost izvora o toj i srodnoj tematici, usmjerila je pozornost na proučavanje pisane riječi o (hrvatskom) zborskom stvaralaštvu u radovima objavljenima u prvome hrvatskom muzikološkom časopisu Arti musices između 1969. i 2009. godine. Riječ je o tekstovima u kojima se eksplicite i/ili implicite pristupalo spomenutoj temi s različitih aspekata: sagledavanjem vokalnoga (zborskoga) opusa pojedinih hrvatskih glazbenika starijega i novijega doba, potom analitičkim prikazima manjega, pa i pojedinačnoga njegova dijela, a u nekim su člancima sastavnim dijelom bili i popisi skladbi autora prema vrstama, među njima i onih za vokalne (zborske) sastave. U 40 godišta/svezaka časopisa Arti musices, u ukupno 63 broja, objavljeno je 47 članaka koji su se znatnije dotakli spomenute teme; među njima je 38 izvornih znanstvenih radova s raznovrsnim - izravnim i posrednim - temama o zborskoj glazbi, te 9 ostalih članaka (otkrića, građe, izvješća, preglednog članka i referata). Unutar prve, brojnije, i za muzikološku znanost relevantnije skupine izvornih znanstvenih radova, stanovit je broj onih u kojima je tematika zborske glazbe bila obrađena izravno (16 članaka), s jedne strane, odnosno posredno ili neizravno (22 članka), s druge strane. No, i u potonjima nešto brojnijim radovima, mogli su se nađi također značajni (historiografski, analitički, faktografski) podatci vezani uz zborsku glazbu, ne samo hrvatskih skladatelja, već i stranih glazbenika koji su svoj opus stvarali (i) na hrvatskom tlu, pa su tako svojim djelom i djelovanjem pridonijeli cjelovitu razvoju hrvatske (glazbene) kulture.The comprehensiveness of written materials on choral music, which had resulted from numerous authorial pens during the 20th century and onwards up until the present, and especially the heterogeneous nature and the dispersion of a number of sources dealing with such and similar subjects, concentrated our attention on the investigation of scientific, expert and other papers on Croatian choir music creativity, published in the first musicological periodical Arti musices between 1969 and 2009. The subject is published texts in which the mentioned theme, in an explicit or implicit manner as well as from various aspects, has been considered: by approaching a vocal (choral) opus of a particular Croatian musician of ancient and/or recent times, and also by analytic descriptions of a lesser, or even a single part of a certain musician’s specific music opus. In some of the papers the list of compositions (including compositions written for vocal/choral ensembles) was added to, mostly according to the genre. In the 40 years/volumes of the Arti musices journal, with the total of 63 issues, 47 articles were published that touched significantly on the mentioned theme; among them there were 38 original scientific papers on various - direct or indirect - questions concerning choral music and 9 other papers (new insights, data on the history of Croatian music, a report, review paper and conference paper). Within the first, numerous group of original scholarly works more relevant for musicological science, there is a certain number of papers in which the choral music theme was treated directly (16 articles), on the one hand, and/or the mentioned theme was elaborated indirectly (22 articles), on the other. However, even in the latter works, many very important data (historiographic, analytic, factualist) on choral music can be found; not only data dealing with music that was the work of Croatian composers, but also music scores composed by foreign musicians, who created their musical oeuvre on Croatian soil, making a great contribution through their manifold music activities to the development of Croatian music culture in general