Serbian Choral Societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1886 to 1914

Miradet Zulić; Sonja Marinković

doi:10.5937/newso2565189Z

Miradet Zulić University of East Sarajevo, Music Academy
Sonja Marinković University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2565189Z

Keywords: Serbian choral societies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, choirmasters, repertoire, hymns of choral societies

Abstract

This paper emphasizes different aspects of the activity of Serbian choral societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period since the foundation of the first Lower Tuzla Serbian Church Choir in March 1886 until the beginning of the First World War. The aim of the paper is to comprehensively and systematically present the available data. It was made on the basis of archival material and previous research by scholars from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. The activities of the choral societies are presented chronologically, pointing out the choirmasters active in this period, the repertoire of the societies, the most important performances, anthems and flags.

Author Biographies

Miradet Zulić, University of East Sarajevo, Music Academy

completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Music Academy in Sarajevo, where he also earned his Ph.D. in 2009 with a dissertation entitled Musical Life in Northeastern Bosnia, 1878–1992. Dr. Zulić is the author of two books, two monographs, and more than thirty scholarly and professional articles published in national and international journals as well as in proceedings from musicological conferences. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Music History and Methodology of Professional Work at the Music Academy in East Sarajevo.

Sonja Marinković, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

Ph.D, is musicologist and retired full professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Marinković serves on the Editorial Board of New Sound – International Journal of Music. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Mokranjac: časopis za kulturu (Mokranjac: Journal of Culture).