Klaipėdos universitetas

In the middle of the twentieth century, when European ethnomusicology started developing on the initiative of Bela Bartok, Filaret Kolessa and Stanislaw Lyudkevich, began to develop a methodology for the study of music dialects, the young Ukrainian scientist Volodymyr Hoshovsky joined the process. He went his own way. His innovative approach was to combine the work of related sciences: lingual geography and ethnomusicology. Ukrainian ethnomusicologist Vira Madyar-Novak examines the first publications of V. Hoshovsky in the context of music dialectology, expands and clarifies information about the early stage of his work.

The article considers the scholarly legacy of Volodymyr Hoshovsky in general, and more specifically his research into musical dialects. The scholar created his musical and dialectological method on the theoretical foundations of Filaret Kolessa, Bella Bartok, and other researchers of folk music from 1955. This study of musical dialects is based on the folk songs of Ukrainians in Transcarpathia.