The present state of research on sacred music in Slovenia from the mid-eighteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century

Abstract

This paper contains a brief overview of the present state of research on various aspects of sacred music in Slovenia from the second half of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. It also deals (concisely, but thoroughly) with some principal features of two rather different approaches to historical interpretation of these activities, as they appear in the two most important outlines of musical history in Slovenia to date: those by Dragotin Cvetko and Janez Höfler. In addition, the paper addresses some tasks required for future investigation of this part of Slovenian music history and presents the bibliography of selected musicological literature published after 1950, which is relevant for this study.