František Ignác Antonín Tůma

A thematic catalogue of his works (TumW)

Author

Wolfgang Esser-Skala

Published

2024-12-15 (v0.8.0)

Introduction

This website contains an evolving thematic catalogue of František Ignác Antonín Tůma’s works.

Caution

This catalogue is work-in-progress and likely contains errors or duplicate entries. Its contents are subject to change as we screen more and more manuscripts.

For general and biographical information on Werner, see Poštolka (2001), Slavicky2004, Slavický (2006), and Schmid (1901).

Overview

We classify Tůma’s works as Vocal music (groups A to H) and instrumental music (groups I to L). Groups C, D, and E are further divided into subgroups to provide a more fine-grained classification and to preserve work numbering if further works are discovered. Following works with ascertained authorship, lost works (prefix L followed by consecutive number) and spurious and uncertain attributions (prefix S followed by consecutive number) are included.

Vocal music comprises

  • A. Masses
  • B. Requiems
  • C. Short liturgical works
    1. Graduals
    2. Hymns
    3. Motets
    4. Offertories
    5. Responsories
    6. Introits
  • D. Vespers and psalms
    1. Complete vespers
    2. Psalms
    3. Misereres
    4. Magnificats
  • E. Marian hymns
    1. Alma Redemptoris mater
    2. Ave Regina coelorum
    3. Regina coeli
    4. Salve Regina
    5. Sub tuum praesidium
  • F. Sequences
  • G. Litanies
  • H. Miscellaneous vocal works

Instrumental music comprises

  • I. Sonatas
  • J. Sinfonias
  • K. Partitas
  • L. Miscellaneous instrumental works

The catalogue contains at least the following information for each work:

  • title
  • one or more incipits
  • identifiers in other catalogues
  • sources (linked to the respective RISM entry, if available)
  • miscellaneous notes
  • relevant literature

In addition, we are annotating more and more works with detailed metadata in MEI format (Music Encoding Initiative, 2023).

Works in the catalogue should be cited by the abbreviation “TumW”, followed by the group, subgroup (if applicable), and work number; the latter three components should be separated by a period.

As a supplement to the catalogue, we publish selected works as Open Content editions. Available works are marked with the symbol in the work details.

Methods

Sources

We consulted the following sources, of which some contain partial catalogues of Werner’s works:

  • Ball (1900) – works known around 1900
  • Eitner (1903, p. 471f) – sources known around 1900
  • Klinka (1975) – vocal works, including practical editions of several motets
  • Peschek (1956) – masses known in the 1950s
  • Reichert (1935) – masses known in the 1930s
  • Vogg (1951) – works known around 1950

Analysis

The work list assembled from these sources (data/catalogue_works.csv) was checked against and supplemented by RISM entries. To this end, entries were downloaded via sru-downloader on 2024-05-26, yielding 309 entries. In the resulting XML file, all tags in the zs namespace were removed, yielding the XML file data/rism_entries.xml, which only contains MarcXML tags:

java -jar SRUDownloader.jar "https://muscat.rism.info/sru/sources?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=creator=%22T%C5%AFma,+Franti%C5%A1ek+Ign%C3%A1c%22&maximumRecords=100"
grep -v "<zs:" output.xml | \
  grep -v "</zs:" | \
  grep -v "<marc:collection" | \
  grep -v "</marc:collection" | \
  sed '1 a\<marc:collection xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim">' | \
  sed '$ a\</marc:collection>' \
  > rism_entries.xml
rm output.xml

Pages for all groups of works were generated automatically from catalogue_overview.csv and catalogue_works.csv. If manually curated incipits were unavailable for a work, the first incipit of the first source with a RISM entry was included. Data from the RISM Catalogue (e.g., Plaine & Easie Code for incipits) by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 3.0 Unported License.

Detailed work metadata was edited with MerMEId v2.0. Incipits were either prepared with MuseScore, polished with mei-friend, and rendered with Verovio, or created with LilyPond and EES Tools. XML files were exported from MerMEId and post-processed. These pages are rendered using the BravuraText font v1.392 and Verovio.

Data and code availability

Datasets and code used for preparing this catalogue are available from GitHub.

Acknowledgements

Assistance of the following people and institutions is gratefully acknowledged: Thomas Dolezal (Dommusikarchiv Eisenstadt – A-Ed), Ute-Eva Thiem (Benediktinerabtei Stift Göttweig, Musikarchiv – A-GÖ), H. Ulrich Mauterer (Stift Herzogenburg, Musikarchiv – A-H), P. Roman Nägele (Stift Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald, Musikarchiv – A-HE), Martin Haltrich and Ulrike Wagner (Stift Klosterneuburg, Musikarchiv – A-KN), P. Altman Pötsch (Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster, Regenterei und Musikarchiv – A-KR), Peter Deinhammer (Benediktinerstift Lambach, Musikarchiv – A-LA), P. Michael Eppenschwandtner (Benediktinerabtei Michaelbeuern, Musikarchiv – A-MB), Christian Schüller (Röm.-Kath. Pfarramt Maria Taferl – A-MT), P. Florian Ehebruster (Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten, Musikarchiv – A-SEI), Johannes Prominczel, Spiridoula Katsarou, and Günther Faimann (Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien – A-Wgm), Ikarus Kaiser (Stift Wilhering, Musikarchiv – A-WIL), Michael Sipka (Erzbischöfliches Priesterseminar – A-Wps), Ludmila Šmídová (Národní knihovna České republiky, Praha – CZ-Pu), Christian Filips (Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Notenarchiv – D-Bsa), Christoph Hauser (Benediktinerabtei Ottobeuren, Bibliothek – D-OB), Martin Lang (Bistum Passau, Archiv – D-Po), Orsolya Ódor, József Iván Kozma-Bognár, and Zsolt Bankó (Helikon Kastélymúzeum Könyvtára, Keszthely – H-KE), Zoltán Damásdi (Pécsi Egyházmegye, Pécsi Püspöki Levéltár, Székesegyházi Kottatár – H-P), Éva Samodai (Szent Benedek Rend Központi Főkönyvtára, Pannonhalma – H-PH), Alessia Ravagnani (Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna – I-Bc), Sebastian Lindblom (Musik- och teaterbiblioteket, Stockholm – S-Skma), Elisabeth Hilscher (Austrian Academy of Sciences), David Gasche (Kunstuniversität Graz, Institut Oberschützen), Vlastimil Tichý (Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně), as well as the staff of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Wien (A-Wn), the Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně (CZ-Bu), the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), the Universität der Künste Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Berlin (D-Bhm), the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl), the Badische Landesbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Karlsruhe (D-KA), the Universitetsbiblioteket Lund (S-L), and the Boston Public Library, Music Department (US-Bp).

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This website is privately provided and maintained by Wolfgang Esser-Skala, Wolfgangseestraße 31g, 5023 Koppl.