Corpus Musicae Popularis Slovacae is a national edition of folk songs and instrumental music from Slovakia and the environments of Slovaks abroad. It presents a parallel to extensive corpus editions issuing from multiple Central European countries (Hungary, Austria, Slovenia etc.). They consist of long-term edition projects with a conception derived from the character of domestic traditional song and music culture and thematically adjusts to their needs of presentation (regional, genre, and music-stylistic criteria, historical retrospective editions etc.). The corpus editions appear in the form of material editions with expert commentary, whereby multiple forms of media are currently used (print, sound, audio-visual). Their object is to bring traditional song and music closer to the public as part of national cultural inheritance.<\/p>\n
The intention of preparing a corpus edition has appeared for the first time in Slovakia in the 1950s, at the Institute of Musicology of the SAS. During the time of publishing of the four-volume edition Slovensk\u00e9 \u013eudov\u00e9 piesne I \u2013 IV <\/i>(Slovak folk songs I – IV<\/em>, 1950 \u2013 1964, ed. Kon\u0161tant\u00edn Hudec, Franti\u0161ek Poloczek) with notated songs from the Department of Music Folklore \/ Department of Ethnomusicology archive, the whole edition additionaly leaned towards the idea of a corpus edition: the third volume (1956) includes the name of the edition Corpus Musicae Popularis \u2013 Cantiones Populares Slovacae. Tomus III<\/i>. The Slovak folk songs edition has,\u00a0in its four volumes, included small repertoire monographs of selected localities from multiple regions of Slovakia.<\/p>\n The Department of Ethnomusicology at the Institute of Musicology, SAS has followed up the idea of a national corpus edition since the early 2000s. In 2002, the first volume of Corpus Musicae Popularis Slovacae <\/i>appeared, including transcriptions of folk songs and instrumental music from Podpo\u013eanie. This first volume was composed on the basis of a new conception, which publishes folk song and music materials by regions.<\/p>\n Volumes up to present day: Corpus Musicae Popularis Slovacae is a national edition of folk songs and instrumental music from Slovakia and the environments of Slovaks abroad. It presents a parallel to extensive corpus editions issuing from multiple Central European countries (Hungary, Austria, Slovenia etc.). … Continue reading
\nPodpo\u013eanie. \u013dudov\u00e9 piesne a hudba. (Corpus Musicae Popularis Slovacae I.) Ed. Osk\u00e1r Elschek, L\u00fddia Miku\u0161ov\u00e1. Zvolen : Podpolianske osvetov\u00e9 stredisko, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"