THE FIRST DECADE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSICOLOGY AND THE INSTITUTE OF MUSICOLOGY OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN ZAGREB: 1970s AS THE YEARS OF UNITY OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

From a historical distance of half of a century it is possible to see today the decade of 1970s, i.e. the first ten years of the activities of the Department of Musicology and the Institute of Musicology of the Academy of Music in Zagreb, as a crucial turning point in the rhythm, articulation, organization and activities at large in musicology as research and university education humanistic discipline in Zagreb and Croatia. Lectures and seminars at the Department (for example, some subjects in general and national history of music, aesthetics and sociology of music) were largely related in their contents to some research projects and publishing activities effectuated within the Institute, and new innovative protagonists of these activities were united in one person as researchers and professors. Specifically all this was done through the projects "Systematic research of early Croatian music and the valorisation of newer Croatian music until the 20th century" (1970-75) and "Fundamental musicological documentation and research into the history of music in Croatia" (1976-80), which during the 1970s engaged musicologists from both the Academy of Music (professors, students, postgraduates) and those active outside of it, as well as some composers, instrumentalists, singers, music psychologists, radio and TV music journalists as editors and music critics. In conclusion, the author offers personal reminiscences about how these innovations fundamentally changed for young researchers their professional and existential perspectives, life paths and realizations, which was also partly connected with general developments in the then contemporary society and its political structure.