THE SIGNIFICANCE OF UKRAINIAN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS BRANCH OF HUMANITIES IN POLAND

Abstract

The article is built as a comparative study which demonstrates a similarity of problems and clear parallelism of the Ukrainian and Polish ethnomusicology. The term „ethnomusicology” was invented in the Ukraine (1928) and it functioned in Poland already in the 1930s. The Ukrainians had begun systematic recordings of folk songs still in the Austrian Galicia at the beginning of the 20th c., in Poland the same action was undertaken in the interwar period. The system of analysis of ethnic melodies, elaborated in the Ukraine in the first decades of the 20th c., is echoed in Poland in the 1950s. We need not to speak of the influence or imitation but this wave shows rather a common cultural core and it proves to the fact that in the Ukraine the significance of study on folk music and traditional songs was more crucial for survival of national consciousness than in Poland, and thus the importance of folk song study was in the Ukraine, at least among its intellectual elites, perceived socially earlier than in Poland. Moreover, in the 20th and 21st centuries, the Ukrainian and Polish ethnomusicologists held common interests of and publish contributions to the study on music traditions of cultural bordelands, Carpathian Mountains, music instruments, song repertoires with its precious, unique cartography