Julije Bajamonti (1744.-1800.) − Između glazbene teorije i prakse
JULIJE BAJAMONTI (1744-1800) − BETWEEN MUSIC THEORY AND PRACTICE

Summary/Abstract: This text explores the general references of the very important music-theoretical written document of doctor Julije Bajamonti, one of the most prominent enlightener in the whole Croatian history. The speech is about the first, encyclopaedic conceived Music dictionary in the native ground with approximately three hundred terms, written in Italian and lesser part in French. In terms explications, Bajamonti compiles thougts about music which are outlined by famous music theoreticians in their works from the ancient times to the last quarter of the 18. century. It is possible to sort all the terminological frames in: 1) the terminology of the theoretical aspects of music correspondent with the ontological problems; 2) the terminology of the instrumental music inside organological problems; 3) the terminology of the general aspects of music correspondent to the aesthetical problems. This learned paper brings the general statements of the set subject and puts forward a list of all historical and music-theoretical sources which we have met in Bajamonti’s autograph and elaborate the reflections of the Bajamonti’s music- theoretical knowledge to his compositional practice.

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