“We Have Plenty of Words Written Down; We Need Melodies!” the Purchase of the First Recording Device for Ethnomusicological Research in Slovenia
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https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2005340110Keywords:
phonograph, wax cylinders, sound recordings, sound archives, Karel Štrekelj // fonograf, voščeni valji, zvočna snemanja, zvočni arhiv, Karel ŠtrekeljAbstract
This paper examines the endeavors of the Committee for the Collection of Slovenian Folk Songs (OSNP) to acquire its first recording device for field sound recordings. The committee’s large-scale plans to purchase two phonographs and a great number of wax cylinders were highly advanced for the time because this would enable systematic folk song research based on sound recordings with archived cylinders serving as references for notation and as a primary source. Unfortunately, the plans had to be curtailed considerably and were only carried out towards the end of the collection campaign.
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Prispevek raziskuje prizadevanja Odbora za nabiranje slovenskih narodnih pesmi (OSNP) za pridobitev prve lastne snemalne naprave namenjene terenskemu zvočnemu snemanju. Širokopotezno zastavljeni načrti nakupa kar dveh fonografov in večjega števila voščenih valjev, s čimer bi sistematično vključili zvočna snemanja v raziskovanje ljudskih pesmi, arhivirani valji pa bi služili kot referenca notnim transkripcijam in kot primarni znanstveni vir, so bili za tisti čas zelo napredni. Žal so se predvideni načrti uresničili šele na koncu zbiralne akcije in v precej skromnejšem obsegu.
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