The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is the research project coordinated by the University of Warsaw and financed by the Minister of Science and Higher Education as part of the National Programme for the Development of Humanities. The long-term project of documenting and editing music repertoires of Jesuit provenience from the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is a form of investment for which all those scholars join their forces together. The aim of this source research is not only to produce a systematic description of hitherto poorly recognised phenomena related to our artistic heritage, but also – to engage in a wider-scale study of the functioning of what once was a key element of Polish national identity – namely, the Jesuit culture at large. The aim is, therefore, also to re-evaluate that part of cultural heritage, to restore it to the living tradition of national culture, and to make the results of our study available to the international academic world. The results of the project work will be published in the new series Fontes musicæ in Polonia, initiated specially for this purpose by the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw. The series, published for five consecutive years 2016–2021, will include: Catalogues of music collections preserved on the territory of Poland (series A); Monographs on selected subjects, collective works and sources for the history of music (series B); Critical editions of selected early music monuments from the territory of the old and present-day Polish state (series C). All books are published in paper version and are available at www.fontesmusicae.pl webpage, which will facilitate fast worldwide reception of research results, the establishments of new academic contacts and new research directions. We are convinced that the results of our research will positively influence our present-day sense of identity and will help us rediscover the place of our countries in Europe