Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742

Paweł Gancarczyk is Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.Lenka Hlávková-Mráčková is Director of the Institute of Musicology, Charles University in Prague.Remigiusz Pośpiech is Professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Wrocław.

• Contents: Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba: Early Keyboard Music in Sources from Prague and Silesia – Veronika M. Mráčková: The Silesian Tradition of Hymns to Czech Saints – Jan Ciglbauer: Two Alleluia Chants in Nicolaus Cosel’s Manuscript: On the Creation of New Liturgical Music in 15th-Century Central Europe – Paweł Gancarczyk: A New Fragment of 15th-Century Polyphony in Silesia and the Tradition of the Central-European Repertory – Lenka Hlávková-Mráčková: Die Saganer Stimmbücher (Das Glogauer Liederbuch) und die Traditionen des polyphonen Liedes in Mitteleuropa – Jaap van Benthem: Die Saganer Stimmbücher (Das Glogauer Liederbuch): eine unbeachtete Quelle für Johannes Tourout? – Jacobijn Kiel: Two Anonymous Salve Settings in Warszawa, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, RM 5892 – Christian Thomas Leitmeir: Lutheran Propers for Wrocław/Breslau: The Cantus Choralis (1575) of Johannes Knöfel – Marc Desmet: Jacob Handl’s Compositions Preserved in the Brzeg Manuscript Collection: Presentation and Chronological Clues – Bernhold Schmid: Nach dir, Herr Christe, thut mein hertz verlangen. Ein unbekanntes Kontrafakt zu Jacob Regnarts Tutto lo giorno aus der Bibliothek des Gymnasiums in Brieg – Thomas Napp: Transferprozesse zwischen Görlitz und Breslau am Beispiel des Meistergesangs im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert – Janka Petőczová: The Role of Silesia in the Development of Musical Culture in the Towns of Spiš/Zips and Šariš/Scharosch – Paulina Halamska: Protestant Elite Milieu in the 17th-Century County of Kłodzko/Glatz as Exemplified by the Family of the Wrocław/Breslau Organist Tobias Zeutschner. Gloss to the Biography – Tomasz Jeż: Jesuit Melodrama in Baroque Kłodzko/Glatz – Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska: Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651) and Alberik Mazák (1609-1661): A Silesian Perspective – Grzegorz Joachimiak: A Week in the Blacksmith’s Life: Lutenists from Silesia and Bohemia around Count Losy von Losinthal (1650-1721) – Remigiusz Pośpiech: Ein Schlesier aus Oppeln in Prag: Franz Ludwig Poppe (1671-1730) und seine Werke in tschechischen Sammlungen – Václav Kapsa: On the Way from Prague to Wrocław: Sacred Music by Early 18th-Century Prague Composers in Silesia – Marc Niubo: Bernard Artophaeus and Bohuslav Matĕj Černohorský. Casual Examples of Czech Music in Baroque Silesia or the Last Traces of Music by Minorites in Wrocław? – Dominika Grabiec: The Motif of «Deafening with Trumpets» in Central European Passion Iconography, the Religious Renewal Movement «Devotio moderna» and Reform of the Begging Monastic Orders – Martina Šárovcová: Choral Books from the Observant Franciscan Monastery in Wrocław from the End of the 17th Century.