The Review of the Collection "Mešoviti Horovi II" by Josip Slavenski

Abstract

This paper presents and gives analytical review of some of the posthumously discovered choir compositions by Josip Slavenski. An important role in their discovery, the following editorship, and also partial reconstructing of newly discovered, unfinished choirs, was played by professor Mirjana Živković, a composer and a theoretician who has studied music of Josip Slavenski from different angles, throughout many years. Out of close to 40 newly discovered choirs, there are 19 mixed a cappella choir compositions which were prepared for printing, which lead to publishing of Horsko stvaralaštvo; Mešoviti horovi of Josip Slavenski, edited by Mirjana Živković in May 2016. The aim of this paper is to show the importance of these posthumously discovered compositions, and to give the analytical review of some of them. Although simplified and less elaborated, these mixed choirs show an importаnt features of the author’s style, аnd for that reason deserve our attention, and the illuminаtion from the analytical, but also performing point of view.