František Ignác Antonín Tůma

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, and Slavický (2006).

Overview

We classify Tůma’s works as Vocal music (groups A to I) and instrumental music (groups J to M). Groups C, D, and F 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
• D. Vespers and psalms
  
  1. Complete vespers
     
  2. Psalms
     
  3. Misereres
     
  4. Magnificats
• E. Responsories
• F. Marian antiphons
  
  1. Alma Redemptoris mater
     
  2. Ave Regina coelorum
     
  3. Regina coeli
     
  4. Salve Regina
• G. Sequences
• H. Litanies
• I. Miscellaneous vocal works

Instrumental music comprises

• J. Sonatas
• K. Sinfonias
• L. Partitas
• M. 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.

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), P. Roman Nägele (Stift Heiligenkreuz im Wienerwald, Musikarchiv – A-HE), P. Altman Pötsch (Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster, Regenterei und Musikarchiv – A-KR), Peter Deinhammer (Benediktinerstift Lambach, Musikarchiv – A-LA), Christian Schüller (Röm.-Kath. Pfarramt Maria Taferl – A-MT), P. Florian Ehebruster (Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten, Musikarchiv – A-SEI), 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), Martin Lang (Bistum Passau, Archiv – D-Po), Damásdi Zoltán (Pécsi Egyházmegye, Pécsi Püspöki Levéltár, Székesegyházi Kottatár – H-P), Alessia Ravagnani (Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna – I-Bc), Sebastian Lindblom (Musik- och teaterbiblioteket, Stockholm – S-Skma), as well as the staff of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Wien (A-Wn), 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), and the Universitetsbiblioteket Lund (S-L).

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Ball, O. (1900). Thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Franz Tuma, 1704-1774]. Universität Wien. Retrieved from https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16857005

Eitner, R. (1903). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellenlexikon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten der christlichen Zeitrechnung bis zur Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Vol. 9). Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/biographischbibl09eitn

Klinka, T. M. (1975). The choral music of Franz Ignaz Tuma with a practical edition of selected choral works (PhD thesis). The University of Iowa.

Music Encoding Initiative. (2023). MEI guidelines (5.0). Retrieved from https://music-encoding.org/guidelines/v5/content/index.html

Peschek, A. (1956). Die Messen von Franz Tuma (1704–1744) (PhD thesis). Universität Wien.

Poštolka, M. (2001). Tůma, František Ignác Antonín. https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28573

Reichert, G. (1935). Zur Geschichte der Wiener Messenkomposition in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts (PhD thesis). Universität Wien.

Slavický, T. (2006). Tůma, František Ignác Antonín. Retrieved from MGG Online website: https://www.mgg-online.com/mgg/stable/23230

Vogg, H. (1951). Franz Tuma (1704–1744) als Instrumentalkomponist nebst Beiträgen zur Wiener Musikgeschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts (PhD thesis). Universität Wien.