SERBIAN MUSIC

Stevan Mokranjac Stevan Mokranjac (1856-1914) - composer, teacher, and music historian. Founder of musicology in Serbia. With his Song Wreaths he carried the beauty of folk music all over Serbia and even beyond its frontiers.

ICONS AND MUSIC OF OLD SERBIA Pavle Aksentijevic The visual art of Paja Aksentijevic is devoted exclusively to the icon-painting style inspired by old Byzantine and Serb fresco-painting. In addition to this, he is active in researching old spiritual music, and some of that work is also featured here.

MEDIEVAL MUSIC
By Roksanda Pejovic

Records about the existence of musicians, singers, players of stringed instruments and horns among the South Slavs were left by, among others, Byzantine historians and Arab travellers.

MUSICAL COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
By Roksanda Pejovic

While music played an important role in the Serbian medieval state (from the twelfth to the fifteenth century), official music died out during the period of Turkish enslavement. The Serbs in Vojvodina (within the borders of the Habsburg empire) once again became involved in European musical trends in the eighteenth century, but they did not forget their traditional roots.