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The Music Repertoire of the Society of Jesus in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth is the research project coordinated by the University of Warsaw and
financed by the Minister of Science and Higher Education as part of the National Programme
for the Development of Humanities. The long-term project of documenting
and editing music repertoires of Jesuit provenience from the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth is a form of investment for which all those scholars join their
forces together. The aim of this source research is not only to produce a systematic description
of hitherto poorly recognised phenomena related to our artistic heritage, but
also – to engage in a wider-scale study of the functioning of what once was a key element
of Polish national identity – namely, the Jesuit culture at large. The aim is, therefore, also
to re-evaluate that part of cultural heritage, to restore it to the living tradition of national
culture, and to make the results of our study available to the international academic
world. The results of the project work will be published in the new series Fontes musicæ
in Polonia, initiated specially for this purpose by the Institute of Musicology, University
of Warsaw. The series, published for five consecutive years 2016–2021, will include:
Catalogues of music collections preserved on the territory of Poland (series A); Monographs
on selected subjects, collective works and sources for the history of music (series
B); Critical editions of selected early music monuments from the territory of the old
and present-day Polish state (series C). All books are published in paper version and are
available at www.fontesmusicae.pl webpage, which will facilitate fast worldwide reception
of research results, the establishments of new academic contacts and new research
directions. We are convinced that the results of our research will positively influence
our present-day sense of identity and will help us rediscover the place of our countries
in Europe. |
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