Supičić Ivo, Ivan, *18 July 1928 Zagreb, Croatian musicologist, and music sociologist. In 1953, he graduated from piano studies at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, in 1960–63, he studied at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris where he obtained his doctorate with the dissertation Eléments de la sociologie musicale. In 1964–86, he taught at the musicology department of the Zagreb Academy of Music (professor from 1964) and in 1979–93 at Strasbourg University; in 1967–68, he gave guest lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge. In 1982–87, he was the chairperson of the International Music Society. He served on the editorial board of the journals “Acta Musicologica” and “Arti musices;” from 1970, he was an executive editor of a biyearly “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” he established.
Literature: Glazba, ideja i društvo / Music, Ldeas and Society, I. S.’s memory book, ed. S. Tuksar, Zagreb 1993.
La musique expressive, Paris 1957
Elementi sociologije muzike, Zagreb 1964 (doctoral dissertation), Polish ed. Wstęp do socjologii muzyki, transl. by S. Zalewski, Warsaw 1969, extended French ed. Musique et société. Perspectives pour une sociologie de la musique, Zagreb 1971, revised English ed. Music in Society. A Guide to the Sociology of Music, Zagreb 1987
Esthétique musicale et sociologie de la musique, “Revue d’esthétique” XIII, 1960
Pour une sociologie de la musique, “Revue d’esthétique” XIX, 1966
Problèmes de la sociologie musicale, “Cahiers internationaux de sociologie” XXXVII, 1964
L’essenza délia música e l’estetica contemporanea, “Rivista di estetica” XIII, 1968
Estetika S. Šuleka. Sintetični pregled osnovnih koncepcij, “Muzikološki zbornik” V, 1969
Zvok kot gradivo ali znak in smisel glasbe, “Muzikološki zbornik” IX, 1973
Aesthetic Views in Contemporary Croatian Music, “Arti musices” special issue, 1970
Problem značenja u glazbi, in “Arti musices” V, 1974
Contemporary Aesthetics and Music, in “Arti musices” special issue, 1979
Matter and Form in Music, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” I, 1970
Expression and Meaning in Music, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” II, 1971
Sens et non-sens en musique, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” III, 1972
Music and Ceremony. Another Aspect, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XIII, 1982
Perspectives pluridisciplinaires. Difficultés d’approche, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XVI, 1985
Les approches socio-musicales de l’oeuvre musicale, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XVII, 1986
Esthétique et art musical, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XIX, 1988
L’histoire sociale de la musique en France. Quelques aspects de base, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XIX–XX, 1988–89
Musique et fête. Note sur le sacre et profane, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XXI, 1990
Les approches socio-historiques de l’oeuvre musicale, in “International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music” XXV, 1994
Contemporary Aesthetics of Music and Musicology, “Acta Musicologica” XIVII, 1975
Early Forms of Musical Mass Culture, in: Music in the Classic Period, B.S. Brook’s memorial book, ed. A.W. Atlas, New York 1985
Les fonctions sociales de la musique, in: Musique et société, R. Wangermée’s memorial book, ed. H. Vanhulst and M. Haine, Brussels 1988
Sociología musical y historia social de la música, “Revista de sociología” XXIX, 1988
