The Slovak Folk Song from a Musical Viewpoint

Kresánek’s work was, when it was published in 1951, the first fundamental synthetic examination of Slovak musical folklore based on Kresánek’s experience, research, on his knowledge of all collections of traditional music, and on methodology rooted in structuralist humanities. The book proved to be not only the key work of Slovak ethnomusicology, but also Kresánek’s first synthetic opus magnum which, in his mature age, led to the summarizing trilogy on the fundamentals of musical thinking.