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YNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
UDC 929Trubar P.
821.163.6:78”15”
Jonatan Vinkler
From the depths I call to you – the cultural-historical framework
of Primož Trubar’s hymnals
This paper deals with the genesis of the Slovene Protestant cantionale with
Primož Trubar, that is, from his Catechism (1550) to Ta prvi psalm ž nega triiemi
izlagami (1579). It thus concentrates on the pan-European and local (i.e. Carnio-
lan) intellectual, political, cultural, religious, literary and personal conditions
and relations that influenced the development of one of the most important
Protestant literary genres in both the Slovene lands and in 16th-century Protes-
tant and reformed churches elsewhere in Europe (e.g. in the German lands, the
Bohemian kingdom, Switzerland).
These influences were also reflected in Primož Trubar, whose relation to mu-
sic and thus Protestant hymns was formed according to his lifelong experience
of performing music, his theoretical knowledge gained through formal and in-
formal study, the views accepted throughout the German Protestant region with
Luther’s reform of church music, and the specific political, cultural and material
factors relating to the Slovene-speaking church in Carniola, Carinthia and Styria.
Thus a considerable similarity of views on music can be found between Trubar
and Luther, except that the former shows a completely medieval emphasis on
the catechismal role of music in mediating/reinforcing the religious message,
i.e. music is primarily an aid to theology.This point marks Trubar off from the
German reformer, who acknowledged practically the same position for music as
for theology, and at times understood it simply as art.
These endeavours to provide Protestant hymns in Slovene developed in two
directions: a) to print and distribute a suitable hymnal for use, containing im-
portant hymns for each day in the year and supporting the Protestant catechesis,
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UDC 929Trubar P.
821.163.6:78”15”
Jonatan Vinkler
From the depths I call to you – the cultural-historical framework
of Primož Trubar’s hymnals
This paper deals with the genesis of the Slovene Protestant cantionale with
Primož Trubar, that is, from his Catechism (1550) to Ta prvi psalm ž nega triiemi
izlagami (1579). It thus concentrates on the pan-European and local (i.e. Carnio-
lan) intellectual, political, cultural, religious, literary and personal conditions
and relations that influenced the development of one of the most important
Protestant literary genres in both the Slovene lands and in 16th-century Protes-
tant and reformed churches elsewhere in Europe (e.g. in the German lands, the
Bohemian kingdom, Switzerland).
These influences were also reflected in Primož Trubar, whose relation to mu-
sic and thus Protestant hymns was formed according to his lifelong experience
of performing music, his theoretical knowledge gained through formal and in-
formal study, the views accepted throughout the German Protestant region with
Luther’s reform of church music, and the specific political, cultural and material
factors relating to the Slovene-speaking church in Carniola, Carinthia and Styria.
Thus a considerable similarity of views on music can be found between Trubar
and Luther, except that the former shows a completely medieval emphasis on
the catechismal role of music in mediating/reinforcing the religious message,
i.e. music is primarily an aid to theology.This point marks Trubar off from the
German reformer, who acknowledged practically the same position for music as
for theology, and at times understood it simply as art.
These endeavours to provide Protestant hymns in Slovene developed in two
directions: a) to print and distribute a suitable hymnal for use, containing im-
portant hymns for each day in the year and supporting the Protestant catechesis,
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