Kosta P. Manojlović and the Teaching of Liturgical Singing

Ivana  Perković; Biljana Mandić

Ivana Perković University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5320-4240
Biljana Mandić University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Philology and Arts, Department of Music

Keywords: church singing education, , Faculty of Orthodox Theology, interwar period, music in curriculum of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, position of music teacher in higher education, Serbian medieval literature as “historical archive”, svetosavlje, medieval idealization

Abstract

The aims of this paper are to provide new insight into Kosta Manojlović’s teaching of liturgical singing, and to interpret the ways in which his work in this field was affected by the historical, social, and cultural milieu of the interwar period in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The first part of the study deals with “facts and figures”, mostly from archival data, about Manojlović’s teaching career at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology between 1923 and 1937: dates, subjects, scarce data on teaching methods, his rise through the hierarchy, organizational issues, etc., while the second part considers the influence of historical, cultural, and social circumstances on his approach to teaching, syllabi, and Serbian church music in general, based on the study of his writings on Serbian medieval music.

Author Biographies

Ivana Perković, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

I. Perković, Ph.D., musicologist, is a full-time professor at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and Vice-dean for research and international relations at the Faculty of Music.

Biljana Mandić, University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Philology and Arts, Department of Music

B. Mandić, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Division of Music Theory and Pedagogy of the Faculty of Philology and Arts at the University of Kragujevac. She acquired her B.A. and M.A. degrees at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Mandić earned her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade as the first Serbian woman to acquire a doctoral degree from this institution.