Slovak Folk Music

Slovak Folk Music

Slovakia is an enormous reservoir of folk music. People in this country themselves designating how "singing nation". Many musicological studies evidence that Slovak folk music is indigenous and has ancient origin, even in respect of neighbours. Scientific designations determining Slovak folk music were come from the late 19th century onwards and set in the Slovak modern history of musicological research, but these researches have rootage in Slovak nationally renascent from 19th century, when many leading personalities of Slovak general life were beginning devote with folk traditions and these researches too refers at them.

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