The Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742

Pawel Gancarczyk is Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Lenka Hlávková-Mrácková is Director of the Institute of Musicology, Charles University in Prague. Remigiusz Pospiech is Professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Wroclaw.

Contents: Elzbieta Witkowska-Zaremba: Early Keyboard Music in Sources from Prague and Silesia - Veronika M. Mrácková: 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 - Pawel Gancarczyk: A New Fragment of 15th-Century Polyphony in Silesia and the Tradition of the Central-European Repertory - Lenka Hlávková-Mrácková: 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 Wroclaw/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 Petöczová: The Role of Silesia in the Development of Musical Culture in the Towns of Spis/Zips and Saris/Scharosch - Paulina Halamska: Protestant Elite Milieu in the 17th-Century County of Klodzko/Glatz as Exemplified by the Family of the Wroclaw/Breslau Organist Tobias Zeutschner. Gloss to the Biography - Tomasz Jez: Jesuit Melodrama in Baroque Klodzko/Glatz - Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarminska: 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 Pospiech: 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 Wroclaw: Sacred Music by Early 18th-Century Prague Composers in Silesia - Marc Niubo: Bernard Artophaeus and Bohuslav Mat j Cernohorský. Casual Examples of Czech Music in Baroque Silesia or the Last Traces of Music by Minorites in Wroclaw? - 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 Sárovcová: Choral Books from the Observant Franciscan Monastery in Wroclaw from the End of the 17th Century.