SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE CROATIAN MUSICAL HERITAGE AS PART OF EURO- MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE: ART MUSIC INSTRUMENTS IN | 45 | DALMATIAN MUSEUMS IVANA TOMIĆ FERIĆ Arts Academy, University of Split, Croatia (
[email protected]) VILENA VRBANIĆ Library of the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, Croatia The article provides insight into musical sources, collections and instruments throughout the territory of Croatia today, and particularly in the historical province of Dalmatia. The aim is to discover new, previously completely unknown information about Dalmatian musical heritage, as well as European musi- cal heritage preserved in Dalmatia, which testifies to the con- nection of Croatian musical sources to Central European and Mediterranean musical and cultural circles. Centred on instru- ments of art music preserved in Dalmatian museums, the re- search is a contribution to the evidence about the continuity of musical culture in the region. These instruments are a reflec- tion of the rich and developed Dalmatian musical history, the complexity of which stems from a tradition of folk and sacred music that spans centuries and is permeated with various influ- ences. On the other hand, they are evidence of close relations between Dalmatia and Europe, in the past and the present. This also highlights the relevance of the research presented here, in which instruments – as concrete results of intercultural interac- tions – have been analysed in a broader musicological and cul- tural context for the first time. Key words: musical heritage, Dalmatia, Euro-Mediterranean culture, musical instruments, art music, Dalmatian museums Volume 13 | 2020 | Number 2 Ivana Tomić Ferić, Vilena Vrbanić INTRODUCTION When exploring the musical past, we often see that archi- val sources are all that we have left.