Prilog muzičkom životu srednjovjekovne Bosne
A Contribution to the Musical Life of Medieval Bosnia

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author gives a short overview of the musical life in medieval Bosnia. The musical life can best be followed on the courts of the powerful Bosnian noble families (Kosača, Pavlović and Zlatonosović) and the Bosnian royal court, and even to a lesser extent in the town settlements. Bosnian nobles held musical groups at their courts, but apart from them, they also received entertainers from Ragusa as guests. These medieval musicians are not well known. We cannot surely confirm whether they were mostly people from Bosnia or foreigners, and we do not know if there were any women in medieval musical groups. We also do not have any information about the forms of spiritual music as a part of religious ceremonies in various religious temples. The musical creativity of the independent Bosnian church is another one of the many unknown subjects in the so called “Bogomil problem”. There is no data about the musical life in medieval villages and our knowledge about it is mainly based on presumptions.

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