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THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH OF THE TRADITIONAL VOCAL MUSIC IN SLOVAKIA

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Urbancova H.
Ethnomusicologicum
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2004
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vol. 3
17-31
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In the 60ties we had a fruitful cooperation between folk song, instrumental and dance research, which influenced vocal research backward as an autonomous field. They developed to a wider field with special themes and interdisciplinary relations. The contribution joins to papers of A. Elscheková and S. Burlasová, presented on the 1st Ethnomusicological seminar (1970), and reflects the investigation of the last 30 years. Our considerations refer mainly to the 90ties, when important changes have been accomplished, influenced by external and internal processes. From fieldwork to archival investigations, to short time fieldwork, focusing on restricted topics, having in mind European relations, connected with new methods and technical aspects. We shall concentrate our interest to the working procedures with the material collected, without taking into account fieldwork and editorial issues. They firstly depend on the research and disciplinary context; musicology - ethnomusicology, ethnology - folkloristic, literary research anthropology, sociology etc. Our evaluation is based on ethnomusicological aspects. There is a change of the concept of folk song, traditional song, having in mind their function, changing from song to vocal music at all, its social meaning, function, holder etc. , and in interpreting them also as a marginal phenomenon. The topics are shifted - bearer, repertory, song genre, minorities, urban ethnomusicology etc., which are in the front of interest. The transition has influenced also further special themes as: variation process, multi-part music, text-music relations, function, musical structure etc. The processing has been attached by the computer use, in building e.g. databases, catalogues, and applying sound analysis. The shifting from autonomous structural view to contextual analysis was important for a better understanding, including also the proper music structure and its mutual text relations.
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ON THE RESEARCH OF MUSIC GENRES

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Urbancova H.
Ethnomusicologicum
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2005
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vol. 4
13-24
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The concept of genres was developed in ethnomusicology and folklore research under the influence of surveying the relation between song occasion a song repertory: on the hand of specific functional bindings the song genre was formed, characterized by inner homogeneity and consistence in the text and melodies. The main aspect is to state criteria, which enable us to define the song group as a genre. Most of the authors take into account three aspects and their combination: 1. Archival funds, 2. Published collections, 3. Proper results of the fieldwork. The article summarizes fieldwork procedures in studying the song genres. It enumerates some aspects, mentioning the range of the repertory, the manner of gathering data and their complexity. At present most of the traditional song genres exist in a latent form, or are related to the new folklore movement. The importance of the genre research is based on the tendency to reconstruct the view on the genres and the song occasions. They are connected with the so-called 'oral-history' - reconstructing memory of the bearers of the songs. The oral sources ask for a critical access. The authoress demonstrates the problems mentioned according to her field research, gained in studying the meadow songs. Genre is a complex category, which has a meta-context of its own and integrates different aspects in studying traditional culture. Ethnomusicologists can't retrieve or stand for the special work of ethnology or folklore research. Fieldwork have to be based on a wide circle of aspects, as the special context of the genre demands, and the genre group as well as the song occasion makes it necessary.
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ON THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST PHONOGRAPH RECORDS IN SLOVAKIA: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF KAROL MEDVECKÝ AND ANDREJ KMET DURING 1901

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Urbancova H.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2006
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vol. 54
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issue 1
5-29
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Private correspondence belongs to the important secondary historical sources. In the complex social and political conditions during the break of 19th and 20th centuries it was the key communication medium for the Slovak intellectuals. It facilitated creating the net of professional and personal contacts which served as a basis for the formation of the Slovak cultural life and its further development after 1918. The private correspondence between Karol A. Medvecký (1875-1937) and Andrej Kmet (1841-1908) helped to reconstruct the history of the first audio records of the Slovak folk songs and their public presentation in the context of the contemporary social and political situation. Karol Medvecký used phonograph for recording songs during the summer 1901 in the village Detva while preparing ethnographic monograph about this village. He came to Detva as a chaplain in 1899. In modern terms, he had a possibility to conduct stationary field research of the numerous forms of the traditional culture. On one side, the use of audio documentation facilitated collecting material, on the other side it allowed to record folk songs and instrumental music in an authentic form which is not possible to recognize from the score. This scientifically based approach was accompanied by the romantic effort to rescue vanishing cultural values which were observed by the last witness - the collector. Medvecký used for records the device which was purchased in cooperation with Béla Vikár, the author of the first phonograph records of the folk songs in Europe. Part of these records was later published in the monograph Detva (1905). At present damaged Medvecký's phonograph barrels are waiting for the evaluation of the possibility of their audio renewal.
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