Musical Works of Serbian Composers Stefan and Nikola the Serb from the 14th C. – Bulingual Anthology of Great Laura (E–108)

Abstract

While reseraching music manuscripts in the Greek Monastery of Great Laura on Mt Athos, during July of 1981, I ran across a rare bilingual neumatic Anthology (containing a part of Serbia Sticherarion at the beginning) with the names of unknown compositions of two Serbian composers: the Protopsaltis Stefan the Serb and Nikola the Serb. Their previously composed works in our and foreign historiography musicology had been connected with the beginnins of written music in medieval Serbia. During the last thirty years, numerous articles have been written regarding these composers. On the basis of these studies, Stefan and Nikola were actiev during the middle of the 15th century.