Miroslav Filip

Doc. Miroslav Filip, PhDr. Miroslav Filip, CSc was a Slovak musicologist and university lecturer. He studied music education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University Bratislava, where he remained after graduation as an assistant. Later he became a lecturer at the newly established Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University Bratislava, where he remained until his untimely death in 1973. He was a specialist in the theory of tonal harmony and a pioneer of musical acoustics and promoted the creative use of natural sciences in musicology, such as mathematics, logic, information theory and cybernetics.

He graduated from the Faculty of Education with his diploma thesis Vývin harmónie a harmonického myslenia under the guidance of Prof. Eugen Suchoň, with whom he also collaborated on the text of the university textbooks Stručná náuka o hudbe (1955) and Náuka o harmónii (1959).

During his lifetime he published his ideas in several scientific studies and in a unique book monograph, Vývinové zákonitosti klasickej harmónie (1965).

In musicology he promoted the creative use of natural science (mathematics, logic, theories of information, cybernetics). Apart from pedagogical and scholarly work, he belonged to a musical ensemble, playing the cello as a member of the so-called KAF trio (Ladislav Kupkovič, Ján Albrecht, Miroslav Filip).

He is the author of several patented inventions (he developed a melograph for the needs of ethnomusicology, worked on the building of the first musico-acoustic laboratory in Slovakia in the Musical Department of the Slovak National Museum’s Historical Institute, collaborated with the Research Enumeration Centre of Comenius University in Bratislava, etc.).