Krakow, Lviv and Bratislava schools musicology as centers of the slaviv way of thinking in scientific and artistic work

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic consists in the necessity of a сomprehensive study of the educational and scientific activities of the departments of musicology of Krakow, Lviv and Bratislava universities during the first half of the twentieth century in the context of coverage of the interaction experience between Ukrainian and foreign higher education institutions so to determine in such way the features and values of the Ukrainian music science in the European scientific and educational space. The purpose of the research is to discover and to analyze the creative tivity of the departments of musicology at the Krakow, Lviv and Bratislava Universities at the consideration of the principles of European musical academic education since the establishment of these institutions in 1911-1912-1921 and till the beginning of the XXI century. In order to provide a holistic developmental picture of musicology as an academic discipline in its broader historical context, the study applies a historical-systematic research method. The biographical information presents the significant figures of Ukraine, Polish and Slovak culture, particularly those representing the musicological school. The novelty of the research work lies in its focus on the Lviv, Krakow and Bratislava School of Musicology, which has become the centre of Slovak musicology, investigating traditional problems and methodologies as well as the latest topics. Highlighting the evolution of musicology as an academic subject, the paper also considers the national and European traditions that led to the establishment of the Musicological School at Lviv Universiti, Jagiellonian University and Comenius University in Bratislava. Orel’s, Jachimecki and Chybinski activity resulted in the emergence of a galaxy of Polish, Ukraine and Slovak musicologists and music historians shaped by European academic methodologies. The first generation received a thorough European-standard academic education at home. Highly educated scholars were conscious of the significance of musicology in the development of the spiritual values of their nation and understood the achievements of their own culture as an integral part of the wider world.