RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS
Early music editing as a sphere of the use of specialized equipment
and computer software in research
Project director: Grzegorz Joachimiak, PhD
This is a grant funded under the internal competition of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław on the distribution of funds from the specific subsidy of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. It applies to retrofit workshop researcher of early music of technical equipment necessary for the preparation of editing music scores and to manage source studies analysis. Project duration: 2016-2017.
Lost sounds – the treasures of the "Bibliotheca Rudolphina"
Project director: Piotr Karpeta
This is a grant funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. It relates to the development of scattered music sources of one of the largest secular music libraries in Europe, founded by Prince George Rudolf of Silesian Piast in Legnica. Development aims to merge scattered sources in the form of a forthcoming online database both in terms of compliance with the scientific and practical aspects for performers of this music. These sources will also be digitized and published in the so-called free access on the internet. The results realized the grant will base taking into account the whole collection, the newest state of research, the missing voices of some compositions will be complemented by concordances from other collections. There will be made also recordings of the music performed by musicians from chamber choir Cantores Minores Wratislavienses, Ars Cantus ensemble along with other invited musicians such Jordi Savall, Bruce Dickeym and Concerto Palatino. This project is also associated with events in Wroclaw as European Capital of Culture in 2016. The project is realized in cooperation with the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM). Project duration: 2014-2016.
More about this project
on the project website: http://rudolphina.pl and here: Die Bibliotheca Rudolphina in Polen, http://www.rism.info
The Old music collections from the church and secular centers in Silesia in the Central European culture context. Cataloging survived sources
Project director: Professor Remigiusz Pośpiech
It is a research grant realized in the Historical Musicology Department of the Institute of Musicology University of Wrocław in cooperation with Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, funded by the National Program for the Development of Humanities in Poland. It concerns development music sources from church and secular centers in Silesia: Nysa – the old Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem monastery, Wrocław and Opole – Capitular Library in Wrocław and the collections from the cathedral in Opole, and Oleśnica – music sources from the collection of Oleśnica (Oels) dukes, stored among others in Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. Project duration: 2012-2017.
More about this project: http://muzykologia.uni.wroc.pl
Cultural heritage of the monasteries closed down in the area of the old Polish Republic and Silesia in the 18th and 19th centuries: history, meaning, taking inventory
Project director: Professor Marek Derwich
It is a research grant of the National Program for the Development of Humanities in Poland. The aim of the project is to initiate a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and generally available to development and cataloging of cultural heritage left by the canceled monasteries, as an important part of the spiritual and material national heritage. This is first attempt in Europe to identify and document scattered collections over a thousand monasteries. The subject of research also includes music sources, which are cataloging in cooperation with the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Project duration: 2012-2017.
More information
are available on www.kasaty.pl and in the project's journal "Hereditas Monasteriorum"
The German Province of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God until 1780
Project director: Petr Jelínek, PhD (Vienna)
The aim of the project is to create a tool for researchers who deal with analysis of issues related to the first foundations and development activities of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in Central Europe, providing the economic foundations of activity of hospitals, its cultural-historical heritage and place the hospital in the modern society. The project will be analyzed the cultural heritage of the Brothers Hospitallers and in particular a direct impact on the functionality of architecture and art (painting, sculpture and music). There will be also discussed the importance of their own hospital pharmacies and herb gardens on the development of pharmacy in Central Europe. Then will be evaluated protocols of patients as a source of objective and comprehensive information about the functioning of hospitals in the modern period and the level of health care in this time. The cloister of Brothers Hospitallers functioned in many countries in Europe as well as overseas, was a precursor to a free health care system citizens, regardless of nationality, social origin or religion patients, while maintaining the highest medical standards.
More information about this project
on the http://www.johnofgod.eu/en
‘Silesiaca’ and ‘polonica’ as the sources for lute music research from the baroque period in Silesia
Project director: Grzegorz Joachimiak, PhD candidate
The internal research grant for the financial support of the research studies or development works and the tasks connected with them which help in the development of young scholars and participants of the Ph.D. studies at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences University of Wrocław. The project’s aim was to conduct pilot research concerning the collections from Silesia and the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania within the scope of lute music in the collections of Bibliothèque National in Paris, Stiftelsen Musikkulturens främjande in Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket – Sveriges nationalbibliotek in Stockholm, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien biblioteket in Stockholm, Musik- och teaterbiblioteket - Musikverket in Stockholm. The research results were partially used in the author’s PhD dissertation and they will also help in developing this issue in the published articles and research studies of this field. Project duration: 01-18.12.2011.
Ethnomusicological expedition "SIBERIA 2006"
Project directors: Professor Bożena Muszkalska and Izolda Topp-Wójtowicz, PhD
A group of 10 students (5 from University of Wrocław and 5 from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) together with their research supervisors took part in research studies, whose subject was the Polish minority group in Siberia, that has never been studied before by musicologists. The interesting people and organizations cultivating the native traditions were among others in Irkutsk but also in towns as far as a few hundreds kilometers from each other, for example: ‘the Polish enclave in Siberia’– Vershina, Pichtynsk, Dagnik, Dunday, Usolye- Sibirskoye, Ulan-Ude, and also in Khuzhir on Olkhon Island, Jelancy, Ivolginsk and Taltsy. The expedition’s aim was to prepare documentation of the music repertoire, assess the performances’ ritual context state, explore the organized activity for cultivating music traditions, analyze the undergoing changes and to describe the relation between the music cultures of people who live in Siberia and those who live in the area of Poland, taking into consideration the historical context.
Moreover, the people who carried out the research, intended to promote the music culture of Poles from Siberia in Poland and to tighten the contact between the cultural institutions and the research ones from both areas. From the Polish side there was shown interest in the music traditions of the Polish communities, mainly in Irkutsk, Vershina, Pichtynsk and Ulan-Ude. It was supposed to strengthen the communities’ sense of high native culture value and help to identify the most precious elements of this culture. Apart from that, the expedition’s aim was also to activate the youngest generation of Poles in Siberia and to create the conditions to pass on the traditions to the next generations continuously. Among others, the research resulted in a Ph.D. dissertation of Łukasz Smoluch (who was one of the expedition’s members) titled ‘Polish musical traditions in the south-eastern Siberia and their role in shaping national and ethnic identities’, written at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, under the supervisor of University of Wrocław and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Professor Bożena Muszkalska Ph.D. The project’s duration period:15.09 – 08.10.2006.
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