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Фоно збирка Музиколошког института САНУ
Audio Collection in the SASA Institute of Musicology

Author(s): Danka Lajić-Mihajlović
Contributor(s): Jelena Simonović-Schif (Translator)
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Music, Archiving, Cataloguing, Preservation, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: phonograph collection; fieldwork recordings; digitization; Serbian traditional folk music; Orthodox Church music; Serbian artistic music;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is relating to audio collection of the Institute of Musicology SASA as extremely important part of this institution’s fund. The collection comprises of valuable sound materials, especially significant collections of fieldwork recordings of traditional folk and church music, as also recordings of pieces of the 19th and 20th century Serbian composers. Information on sound carriers, methodologies and circumstances in which the recordings have been made, their preservation and further treatment with modern technologies, are a part of ethnomusicological and musicological histories in Serbia. According to number of sound recordings, diachronical dimensions that encompass, geographical areas and genre diversity, this collection is one of the most important sound collections of scientific profile in Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 1/2010
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 141-151
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Serbian
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