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Ludovico Paschali, a Poet set to Music (5 works)Renaissance Music in Croatia is a website dedicated to the critical edition of music by composers and sources from the Croatian area, and also by Italian musicians who worked in Croatia during the Renaissance. This site collects the critical editions of pieces of music, references to musical and literary manuscripts and printed sources produced from the fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, and biographies. The critical editions can be downloaded in three formats: PDF, Sibelius and MEI files. This is a project in progress, periodically enriched with new editions of music.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Croatia was a crossroads of cultures, politically controlled by the Hapsburgs, the Hungarian kingdom, the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, while the Republic of Dubrovnik remained autonomous. Croatian Renaissance culture, especially in the region from Istria to Dubrovnik, contributed to the development of European musical production in different forms, such as:
Musicologists interested in contributing are invited to contact the responsible of the project, Vincent Besson.
External links
Renaissance Music and Culture in Croatia
(Turnhout: Brepols, 2016)
Renaissance Music in the Slavic World
(Turnhout: Brepols, 2019)
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Roles: Member of a court chapel (lower ranked officer) ; Member of a princely/private household ; Student ; Writer/Scientist
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Roles: Bookseller ; Dedicator ; Music printer ; Printer/Publisher
Roles: Bookseller ; Music printer
Roles: Composer ; Member of a princely/private household ; Organist ; Writer/Scientist
Roles: Choirmaster ; Composer ; Instrumentalist ; Singer
Roles: Cleric ; Editor ; Monastic Order ; Writer/Scientist
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Roles: Choirmaster ; Composer ; Dedicator ; Priest
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Roles: Lyricist-Poet ; Member of a princely/private household ; Student
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https://ricercardatalab.cesr.univ-tours.fr/projects/2/
Besson Vincent, Renaissance Music in Croatia (2005-2007), in RicercarDataLab [https://ricercardatalab.cesr.univ-tours.fr/projects/2/] (accessed 01 June 2026).