ПРИЧИНКИ ДО БІОГРАФІЇ КЛИМЕНТА КВІТКИ : ТАК КОЛИ КЛИМЕНТ КВІТКА ПОБУВАВ У КУКАВЦІ?

Abstract

The first part of the proposed papers covers the history of the ethnographic and folk music collection activity of ethnomusicologist Clyment Kvitka and dialectologist Olena Kurylo in 1921th–1923th. The second part, discussing the expedition in the vil- lage Kukavka, Vinnytsia region, will be published in the next edition of “Ethnomusic” In the initial phase of the collection activities, K. Kvitka used every opportunity to record folk songs. It could be at private places, at hotels, even in a prison or a concentration camp. The beginning of the joint collecting work of K. Kvitka and O. Kurylo dates back to 1921, where the main method was an intentional search of folk performers who originated from different parts of the Ukraine and settled in Kiev. Usually, the performers came from the far northern and western territories of Ukraine, which were to a great extent preserved ethnographically. Joint field collecting excursions were began by the scientifics in 1922. The field recordings were continued in the next three pretty large-scale expeditions in 1923. In the expeditionary sessions O. Kurylo recorded poetic texts and it allowed K. Kvitka to consentrate on writing down musical notes, in particular, to trace possible performing melodic “variations”, which was one of the most characteristic features of his transcriptions of that period. In return, dialectologist O. Kurylo professionally wrote folk songs poetic texts, noting semi-pho- nological fiatures. For the first time, scientists visited Kaniv district in the Kyiv region, where they studied the relict ritual of the harvest cycle – “leading of the «perehenia»”. Later they visited Poltava area and several times the Chernihiv area. Unfortunate- ly, the unique attempts at synchronous fixation of the musical-poetic folk performance have never been published. In the article the chronology of K. Kvitka’s folklore recordings is analyzed in details. Some unreliable data about time and place of the shorthand recordings are corrected. In particular, many sources mistakenly mention the ethnomusicologist’s records were made in the settlements he visited. In fact, these records were made from temporary or permanent migrants in Kyiv. All data are extensively analysed based on historical information from printed sources.