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Isidor Bajic
Isidor Bajic's Manuscript
“Serbian Girl”
“Collection of Pieces for Piano”
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Isidor
Bajic was famous as a composer of choral compositions “Serbian Girl”,
or “Ay, Who Bought It For You”. He was an important pedagogue,
collector of folk songs, publisher, music writer and cultural missionary
of Novi Sad and Vojvodina region at the beginning of 20th
century. For
fourteen years, he was working as a teacher of singing and church singing
in Big Serbian Orthodox Lyceum in Novi Sad (today that is High School
“Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj”). He conducted chorus of students, string and
tamburitza orchestras. He organized sermons in the Lyceum for the occasion
of Saint Sava Day. He helped talented students in taking their first steps
as composers and finally, in 1909, he founded Music School – after
“Singing School” founded by Aleksandar Morfidis-Nisis, it was the
first institution of that kind in Vojvodina. As a part of his pedagogical
work, he prepared “Project for Making Changes in Teaching Singing and
Church Singing in Big Serbian Orthodox Lyceum in Novi Sad” (1912). As
a music writer, he published articles in almost all periodicals and daily
newspapers printed at that time (Singing as Pedagogical Mean and Its
Usefulness; Serbian Church, Folk and Dance Music; How To Preserve and
Cherish Voice; How Music Should Be Taught in Teachers’ School and
Seminary; Our Church Singing; series of articles on Association of
Serbian Singing Groups, which caused harsh debate with Mr. Petar Konjovic;
etc.). Beside that, he started Serbian Music Magazine (that was
chronologically the third music magazine in the history of Serbian
publishing industry). He wrote and published two textbooks: Piano and
Piano Teaching and Theory of Correct Singing from Notes – the
first two books of that kind in Serbian music history. As
a collector of folk songs, he wrote down folk melodies and Serbian church
songs. He used folk melodies abundantly in his compositions for piano,
choral works, pieces with singing and opera “Prince Ivo from
Semberija”. In the summer of 1911, while he travelled to the Hilandar
monastery with chorus of theology students from Sremski Karlovci, he
compared Serbian church singing with church singing of other nations. He
contacted directly reverend Lukijan Bogdanovic, Serbian orthodox bishop in
Budim, regarding proposal for making changes in Serbian church singing
(1907). In
his composer work, Bajic covered all genres that could be used pursuant to
general music taste and level of performance in his time: songs
(cycle “Songs of Love”, “Collection of Songs in the Spirit of
Serbian Folk Songs”, “Serbian Folk Songs in ‘Collection of Folk
Songs’ by Mokranjac”, “Peasant Girls”, “Autumn Comes, My
Quince”), compositions for piano (“Collection of Pieces for
Piano”, “For Kosovo-Kumanovo, For Slivnica-Bregalnica”), chamber
pieces (“Song With No Words”, “Pizzicato Polka”,
“Romance”), orchestra works (“Mist Fell”, “Elegy”,
“Farewell to Draga Ruzicka”), choral songs (for mixed,
male or female choruses: “Song About Song”, “Hunters Gathering”,
“Divine Liturgy”, “Death of Gusla Player”, “From My
Schooldays”, “From My Backyard”); pieces with singing
(“Djido”, “Brandy”, “Change”, “Divljusa”) and opera “Prince
Ivo from Semberija”. Miss Danijela Sutanovac |
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