Karmelitańskie kapele w Rozdole i Horodyszczu w XVIII wieku
Carmelite Ensembles in Eighteenth-Century Rozdół and Horodyszcze

Summary/Abstract: Library research conducted in the first quarter of 2022 at the Library of the Carmelite Monastery at Piasek in Kraków (within the framework of a project titled ‘Carmelite Musical Culture in the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th–18th Centuries – A Research Reconnaissance’) attracted attention to two previously unresearched historical sources (inventories) which comprise information about the activity of music ensembles at Carmelite churches in Rozdół (now Rozdil) and Horodyszcze (now Horodyshche, both in Ukraine) in the eighteenth century. Previously unknown to scholars, these inventories mention the instruments and music-related sources available to Carmelite musicians in the second half of the eighteenth century. Unfortunately, for the music sources from Rozdół we are only given a list of genres (Masses, litanies, Vespers, symphonies, ‘plancti’, etc.), while from Horodyszcze we have a general remark that ‘music documents of various kinds can be found in a bookcase where the ensemble performs’. We can also learn from these inventories that the ensembles in both places included violins, oboes, trumpets, horns, and keyboard instruments (church organ or positive organ), which made it possible to perform the current repertoire in different genres. The inventories thus contain valuable information about musical life in minor Carmelite centres in the eastern parts of the Old Commonwealth and change our knowledge about Carmelite musical life in that period.

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