Recenzowane materiały z the 2nd Heritage Forum of Central Europe "The Limits of Heritage", 11-14.06.2013, Kraków

Discussing enthusiastically the EU common cultural sphere as the new, achievement of international collaboration we forget the project “Europe” is not a political arrangement which appeared after the Second World War. Despite the geographical understanding of this term and the “national” background of the contemporary Europe per se, it exist a whole variety of “(Central)-European cultural heritages”. (Central)-European musical style is a good example of such linkage. Discussion of two terms: “pastorella” and “pastorale” – popular in European music since 17th c. till the 19th c. – will be a good example of such musical heritage preserved regardless the historical and civilizational changes. The numerous musical clichés connected with above mentioned terms are common heritage of numerous national music styles. More! The same musical elements used to be called the “characteristic” components of local/regional/national styles. It is however easy to proof the same elements are entirely unknown to other cultures or their function is reasonably different. One can therefore define the borders of a given cultural heritage by examining the dispersion of chosen musical constituents like: instruments, genres, compositional techniques and other clichés.