Annotations
| Nr. | Topic | Annotations |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sublime and Contemporary Art | The category of the sublime is one of the basic aesthetic categories, yet relatively few philosophers and aestheticians have dealt with the category of the sublime; Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant are worth mentioning. In the past, the sublime has only been thought of in relation to nature. Modern and postmodern art, however, has caused a change in this attitude, and many thinkers have been convinced that part of modern and postmodern art is made in the name of the aesthetics of the sublime. The turn to the sublime is particularly associated with the name of Jean-Francois Lyotard, and the aim of this PhD thesis is to systematically investigate the relationship between art and the sublime. |
| 2. | Late Baroque and Rococo altars in Slovakia | The 18th-century altarpieces constituted one of the most prevalent types of artistic commissions of the period, and they continue to represent a substantial proportion of the cultural heritage. While knowledge regarding individual altarpieces is progressively expanding, the most recent systematic treatment of this subject in Slovakia occurred two decades ago and has not been subsequently updated (K. Chmelinová, Miesto zázrakov, Bratislava 2005). The development of altars in Slovak territory underwent a significant transformation in the second quarter of the 18th century, particularly concerning the works of G. R. Donner and his workshop. After examining the changes brought about by this phase, the dissertation project should provide a more comprehensive interpretation of the forms of late baroque and rococo altarpieces in our territory, emphasizing the second half of the 18th century. The analysis of this subject necessitates an examination of the convergences of artistic disciplines, chiefly sculpture, painting and architecture, in addition to the dissemination of motifs through printed media.The project's thematic focus can be more precisely delineated in terms of geography, time, typology, and other pertinent criteria. |
| 3. | Michal Buľovský's musical work in the context of contemporary musical thought | The polyhistorian and polyglot Michal Buľovský (1640 – 1711), a member of a noble family with the predicate of Dulice, after completing his studies at German universities and settling in Germany, as an organist and rector he devoted himself to several areas of natural and social sciences (mathematics, politics and state administration, poetry and music). His three music-theoretical treatises published in Latin and German are only marginally known so far. The aim of the dissertation project will be a philological and content analysis of these treatises and, on its basis, the integration of Buľovský's musical work into the context of contemporary music-theoretical thinking. The task will be to determine the autonomy of Buľovský's ideas and instrumental experiments and their impact on musical practice at a time when music theory was mainly interested in the problems of harmonic modulation and appropriate temperature. |
| 4. | Migration of music in the 17th – 19th centuries in the central european context | The issue of music migration in the 17th – 19th centuries in the Central European context includes basic musicological research in the field of migration of musical personalities in historically changing social, cultural and political structures in Slovakia and in Central Europe. The research will be focused on the migration of musicians and on the problems of the dissemination of musical works preserved in manuscript and printed music sources. |
| 5. | Music sources. Transcription and editing of music from the baroque to the classicism | The issue of research of musical sources includes archival research of sources of various types (manuscripts, early prints, archival documents) important to the history of music and their theoretical evaluation (external and internal criticism, music transcription and the analysis of the musical style). The goal of the research will be a critical edition of the most valuable music of the 17th and the 18th century preserved in Slovakia as a basic aspect of its inclusion in the European cultural heritage. |
| 6. | Medieval notations in the context of sources from Slovakia and Moravia: their parallels and regional specificities | The study will focus on the analysis and evaluation of medieval notation systems in Central Europe and the identity of scribes and notators of selected liturgical codices and fragments from the territory of present-day Slovakia and Moravia. Active scriptoria, or migrating scribes, illuminators and notators, created a large number of liturgical manuscripts which reveal valuable information about their activities and migrations. Several sources point to various combinations with respect to the identity of the manuscripts, with the liturgy or the musical contents representing the customer and the notation representing the creator of the particular source. The he notation will be analysed in terms of the identity of the manuscripts, as it bears exact provenance markers in the medieval space. Many ecclesiastical communities, scriptorial workshops or individual notators possessed specific forms of notation, which can be stratified according to regional (Esztergom notation), supra-regional (Bohemian – from Bohemia and Moravia; Messine-Gothic notation from French-German milieu), and transregional notations (square or other notations of all medieval monasteries: Franciscans, Dominicans, Cistercians, Augustinians, Carthusians, etc.). |
| 7. | Traditions of church singing in Slovakia: History and present | The topic includes various aspects of post-medieval church singing in vernacular and ecclesiastical language and its variability in the context of existing confessional and liturgical traditions in Slovakia. There is room for musicological source research (notated and unnotated hymnals, agendas, rituals) and comparison of this phenomenon in relation to the medieval heritage, to other linguistic and regional traditions, as well as in the context of specific historical stages from the 16th century to the present (the age of Confessionalism, the Enlightenment, the age of Historicism, the period of secularisation and globalisation in the 20th century). |