K fonografickým nahrávkam Karola Antona Medveckého na Horehroní. Piesne z Beňuša (1903)
On the Phonograph Recordings by Karol Anton Medvecký in Horehronie. Songs from Beňuš (1903)

Summary/Abstract: A collection of phonograph cylinders used by the Slovak ethnographer Karol AntonMedvecký (1875 – 1937) documents the first sound recordings of traditional music madeon the territory of Slovakia. Content reconstruction has been performed on this collection,providing information about the documented repertoire and clarifying the contemporarycontext in which the recordings were undertaken. Medvecký carried out sound recordingsof folk music using a phonograph, especially in the places where he was employed. Havingdone this in the villages of Detva (1901) and Veľké Pole (1902 – 1903), in the course of1903 he realized a sound documentation of Slovak folk singing in the village of Beňuš inthe Horehronie region. Although the physical decay of the recordings has gone so far as tomake a restoration of their sound impossible, preserved historical sources and comparativematerial have enabled a hypothetical reconstruction of the documented repertoire to theextent of eight songs. This repertoire refers to the genres of love songs, military songs,humorous songs and narrative songs.

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