The Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742

The volume includes detailed studies concerning various aspects of the musical culture of Silesia from the fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. The authors, who represent academic centres in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Holland, France and Great Britain, present new sources, as well as reinterpreting previously known facts and phenomena.

Pawe? Gancarczyk is Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Lenka Hlávková-Mrá?ková is Director of the Institute of Musicology, Charles University in Prague. Remigiusz Po?piech is Professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Wroc?aw.

Contents: El?bieta Witkowska-Zaremba: Early Keyboard Music in Sources from Prague and Silesia – Veronika M. Mrá?ková: 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 – Pawe? Gancarczyk: A New Fragment of 15th-Century Polyphony in Silesia and the Tradition of the Central-European Repertory – Lenka Hlávková-Mrá?ková: 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 Wroc?aw/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: . Ein unbekanntes Kontrafakt zu Jacob Regnarts aus der Bibliothek des Gymnasiums in Brieg – Thomas Napp: Transferprozesse zwischen Görlitz und Breslau am Beispiel des Meistergesangs im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert – Janka Pet?czová: 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 K?odzko/Glatz as Exemplified by the Family of the Wroc?aw/Breslau Organist Tobias Zeutschner. Gloss to the Biography – Tomasz Je?: Jesuit in Baroque K?odzko/Glatz – Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmi?ska: 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 Po?piech: 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 Wroc?aw: Sacred Music by Early 18th-Century Prague Composers in Silesia – Marc Niubo: Bernard Artophaeus and Bohuslav Mat?j ?ernohorský. Casual Examples of Czech Music in Baroque Silesia or the Last Traces of Music by Minorites in Wroc?aw? – 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 Wroc?aw from the End of the 17th Century.