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Dujka Smoje. Musicologist, mediaevalist, teacher, b Split, Yugoslavia, 7
Apr 1941, naturalized Canadian 1973; diploma in musicology (Sarajevo)
1963, certificat d'études supérieures history of music (Paris) 1964,
certificat d'études supérieures history of the Middle Ages (Poitiers)
1966, doctorat musicology (Poitiers) 1967. She studied at the Music
Academy of the University of Sarajevo (1959-63) and at the Institut de
musicologie of the University of Paris. Afterwards, she worked under the
guidance of Solange Corbin at the University of Poitiers. In 1967, she
settled in Montreal where she was hired as librarian at the Institut
médiéval of the University
of Montreal, also becoming a professor at the Faculty of music that
same year. As a researcher, her studies have centred on mediaeval
music, paleography, iconography and musical aesthetics. Dujka Smoje has
published Qu'est-ce qu'une oeuvre musicale? (Paris 1989), a
critical translation, plus an essay, of a work by Roman Ingarden.
Recipient of several Canada
Council grants, she is the author of numerous articles and she has
lectured extensively. Among her other achievements is a 13-course series
for television entitled 'Les Sources de la musique occidentale',
broadcast on Radio Québec in 1990.
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