Department of Musicology
Faculty of Music
University of Arts in Belgrade

The Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade has a 77-year-long tradition of continuous operation strongly focused on teaching and research activities. These inseparable components in the work of the Department’s members are symbiotic, and they form the basis of any type of engagement with students during all study levels: the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral levels.

 

The research aspect is important not only for the scientific and professional development of teachers, but also for students’ competences. The study program of musicology qualifies students to understand music systematically and critically, enabling them to master relevant research skills and methods needed for analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of new ideas in academic and professional environments.

 

For more than three decades, the Department has been publishing the International Journal of Music New Sound, an eminent peer-reviewed academic periodical that contributes significantly to the advancement of global musicological scholarship. In recent years, the Department has undertaken intensive national and international research activities through numerous projects, including (to mention just a few):

 

National projects:

• Identities of Serbian Music in the World Cultural Context /2011–2019/;

• World Chronotopes of Serbian Music /2006–2010/;

• Serbian Music and European Musical Heritage /2001–2005/.

 

International projects:

• Innovative Universities in Music & Arts in Europe – IN.TUNE /ongoing/;

• Enhancing the Digital Competencies and Entrepreneurship Skills of Academic Musicians in Serbia for Culturally More Engaged Society – DEMUSIS /2019–2023/;

• The Jean Monnet Module Music and Art in the Shaping of the European Cultural Identity /2017–2021, Erasmus+/;

• The Jean Monnet Module Musical Identities and European Perspective: an Interdisciplinary Approach /2014–2017, Erasmus+/;

• Tempus project Introducing Interdisciplinarity in Music Studies in the Western Balkans in Line with the European Perspective /2011–2016/.

 

International conferences

The Department of Musicology has an almost 40-year-long history of organizing and hosting international conferences.

 

From 1987, the Department biennially organized the international scientific conference Folklor i njegova umetnička transpozicija (Folklore and Its Artistic Transposition) and on that occasion published three collections of papers named Folklore and Its Artistic Transposition I–III:

 

• Dragoslav Dević, ur. Folklor i njegova umetnička transpozicija I. Beograd: Fakultet muzičke umetnosti, 1987;

• Vlastimir Peričić, ur. Folklor i njegova umetnička transpozicija II. Beograd: Fakultet muzičke umetnosti, 1989;

• Vlastimir Peričić, Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Mladen Marković, Dragoslav Dević, ur. Folklor i njegova umetnička transpozicija III. Beograd: Fakultet muzičke umetnosti, 1991.

 

In the following years, the conference had the topic Folklore, Music, Work of Art, focusing on the following areas: Identity and Alterity of the Work of Art (1995), Exclusivity and Coexistence (1997), and Music & Media (2004), followed by collections of papers:

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• Vlastimir Peričić, ed. Folklore – Music – Work of Art, IV International Symposium: Identity and Alterity. Belgrade: Faculty of Music, 1997;

• Miško Šuvaković, ed. Folklore – Music – Work of Art, V International Symposium: Exclusivity and Coexistence. Belgrade: Faculty of Music, 1997;

• Vesna Mikić and Tatjana Marković, eds. Folklore – Music – Work of Art, VI International Symposium: Music & Media. Belgrade: Faculty of Music, 2004. 

 

From 2006 onwards, the biennial international conferences have been organized, representing one of the most important scientific events not only in Serbia, but also in the whole region. National and international experts in musicology and related disciplines have presented their valuable papers and participated in lively debates in discussions. Until now, the following international conferences have been organized:

• Music Beyond the Concert Hall, April 2024 (click here to access the collective monograph Music Beyond the Concert Hall, which includes eleven original academic articles written by twelve contributors);

• Music – Musicology – Interpretation, October 2021;

• Contextuality of Musicology – What, How, Why and Because, October 2018;

• Transpositions: Music/Image, October 2016;

• Musical Practices – Continuities and Transitions, April 2014;

• Music and Paper/Music and Screen, April 2012;

• Between Nostalgia, Utopia, and Realities, April 2010;

• (Auto)Biography as a Musicological Discourse, October 2008;

• Musical Culture & Memory, April 2006.

 

The Department has also hosted national conferences with international participation:

• Stanislav Vinaver and Music, November 2022;

• Diffractions of Berislav Popović’s Compositional, Music-Theoretical, Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Creation, November 2021;

• ‘The Native Melody’ of Momčilo Nastasijević: Interdisciplinary Reflections, November 2019.

 

Each of these conferences has been followed by a collective monograph published in the Serbian and/or English language.

 

The employees of the Department have diverse professional and social engagements, including, among other things, taking part in boards of directors of the Faculty of Music and the University of Arts, expert committees, editorial boards of journals, as well as acting as members of program committees of international conferences and leading music and culture institutions in Serbia. They give public and keynote lectures at various institutions in the country and abroad, take part in roundtable sessions and book promotions, and regularly plan and organize art events.

 

The Department realized the capital project The History of Serbian Music: Serbian Music and European Musical Heritage (2008), a problematically conceptualized view of various issues regarding the history of Serbian music and style, the development of genres and institutions of musical life in our country.

 

The collections of papers Opera from Ritual to Art Form (1999), Music through Thought (2002), Man and Music: To Professor Dr. Dragoslav Dević (2003), Musicological and Ethnomusicological Reflections (a collection of papers from the conferences held in 2003 and 2006), History and Mystery of Music – in Honor of Roksanda Pejović (2006), A Tribute to Mokranjac (2006), ‘Allegretto Giocoso’ – the Creative Work of Mihovil Logar (2008), as well as Thematic Possibilities in Lexicographic Units on Musical Institutions: Collection of Papers (2009), ‘The Native Melody’ of Momčilo Nastasijević: Interdisciplinary Reflections (2021), Diffractions of Berislav Popović’s Compositional, Music-Theoretical, Pedagogical, Social and Cultural Creation (2022), and Stanislav Vinaver and Music (2023) also have a national character.

 

Members of the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade: 

Professor Ivana Perković, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Musicology

Professor Tijana Popović Mladjenović, Ph.D.

Professor Ana Stefanović, Ph.D.

Professor Dragana Jeremić-Molnar, Ph.D.

Professor Dragana Stojanović-Novičić, Ph.D.

Professor Marija Masnikosa, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Biljana Leković, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Ivana Miladinović Prica, Ph.D.,
Secretary of the Department

Assistant Professor Radoš Mitrović, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Marina Marković, Ph.D.,
Head of the Musicology Department Council

Assistant Professor Stefan Cvetković, Ph.D.

 

Junior Teaching Assistants, Junior Research Assistants, and Research Assistants
financially supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation
of the Republic of Serbia: 

Research Assistant Neda Nestorović, Ph.D. Candidate 

Research Assistant Maša Spaić, Ph.D. Candidate

Research Assistant Marija Tomić, Ph.D. Candidate

Junior Research Assistant Dunja Savić, Ph.D. Student

Junior Research Assistant Jovana Vukosavljević, Ph.D. Student

 

Since its founding in 1948, distinguished former members of what was originally
the Department Council for History of Music and Musical Folklore,
later the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology,
and today the Department of Musicology, include: 

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Professor Petar Konjović (1883–1970), Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Professor Stana Đurić-Klajn (1905–1986)

Professor Petar Bingulac (1897–1990)

Professor Miodrag Vasiljević (1903–1963)

Professor Nikola Hercigonja (1911–2000)

Professor Dragoslav Dević (1925–2017), Ph.D., former Head of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Professor Marija Koren Bergamo, Ph.D.

Professor Vlastimir Peričić (1927–2000),
Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Professor Roksanda Pejović (1929–2018), Ph.D.

Professor Nadežda Mosusova, Ph.D.

Professor Dimitrije Golemović, Ph.D., former Head of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Professor Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Ph.D., former Head of the Department of Musicology and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Music New Sound

Professor Vesna Mikić (1967–2019), Ph.D., former Head of the Department of Musicology

Professor Sonja Marinković, Ph.D., former Head of the Department of Musicology