Musical folklore in the modern education system in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States

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In recent years, due to ratification in many countries of the Unesco Convention on the Protection of the Intangible Heritage and the creation of the List of Intangible Heritage of Unesco, the discussion of ways of active transmission of musical traditions, not only archiving works, has been discussed again. Before the West was interested in these issues, centers in music academies dedicated to teaching and continuing traditional music in the new conditions of modern society were established in many countries of eastern and northern Europe.The article tries to consider not only the possibilities but also the pedagogy of teaching traditional music in various music academies in Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Scandinavia, and in some Polish environments interested in folk music. The cultural movements that led to the foundations of traditional music or ethnomusicology at music academies were of great importance for the whole musical culture and for this reason I try to put them in the cultural, political and social context that gave them a beginning. The traditional music departments were created independently of each other, especially in times of the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, not knowing about the existence of such institutions in other countries. In recent decades, the contacts between music academies of music academies have strengthened, where traditional music of Scandinavia and the Baltic Republics is taught thanks to Nordtrad Network, which annually organizes conferences and workshops with students and lecturers of music academies where traditional music is taught. The teaching of traditional music, like teaching music in accordance with the canons of the epoch and place of origin, is the best solution for continuing tradition and active protection of the intangible heritage.