APLIKÁCIA DIGITÁLNYCH TECHNOLÓGIÍ VO VÝSKUME TRADIČNEJ INŠTRUMENTÁLNEJ HUDBY NA SLOVENSKU
The Application of Digital Technologies in the Research of Traditional Instrumental Music in Slovaki

Summary/Abstract: Comparative musical science, later ethnomusicology, was born and, in the positivesense of the word, developed in close relation to the historic development of audio-visual recording technologies. Especially its music analysis methods went throughan important process of improvement in the last third of the 20th century in con-nection with the fast development of digital and later information and communica-tion technologies and, above all, with the intensive improvement of technologicaldevices which are capable of visualising the physical parameters of sound signals.This paper describes the background of the most important areas of ethnomusico-logical research of folk musical instruments in Slovakia in the context of the inter-national scientific discourse. It deals with the forms of application of digital tech-nologies in ethnoorganological research, the methodological issues associated withthe sound recording of musical performers and, finally, with the specificities of theanalysis of instrumental music sound records with an emphasis on the current re-search of playing styles. Digital technologies play a key role in all research stagesleading to the understanding of the vocal essence of traditional music. This relatesto several distinctive theoretical and methodological issues, a selection of which isdiscussed in the final part of the tex

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