Slovakia is an enormous reservoir of folk music. People in this country themselves designating how "singing nation". Many musicological studies evidence that Slovak folk music is indigenous and has ancient origin, even in respect of neighbours. Scientific designations determining Slovak folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

were come from the late 19th century onwards and set in the Slovak modern history of musicological research, but these researches have rootage in Slovak nationally renascent from 19th century, when many leading personalities of Slovak general life were beginning devote with folk traditions and these researches too refers at them.

Overview

Composers such as Jan Levoslav Bella

Ján Levoslav Bella

Ján Levoslav Bella was a Slovak composer, conductor and music teacher, who wrote in the spirit of the Nationalist Romantic movement of the 19th century.- Life :Bella was raised in a Roman Catholic family...

 began to include Slovak folk music in their compositions, and Slovak music was collected and used by composers such as Bela Bartok

Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

, Jan Cikker

Ján Cikker

Ján Cikker was a Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in Slovakia, the Herder Prize and the UNESCO Prize .-Life:...

 and Eugen Suchon

Eugen Suchon

Eugen Suchoň was one of the greatest Slovak composers of the 20th century.-Early life:...

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In November 2005 the fujara

Fujara

The fujara originated in central Slovakia as a large sophisticated folk shepherd's fipple flute of unique design. It is technically a contrabass instrument in the tabor pipe class....

(Slovak shepherds' pipe) and its music were named Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness on intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural...

 by UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

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See also

• Music of Slovakia
  Music of Slovakia
  The music of Slovakia has been influenced both by the county's native Slovak peoples and the music of neighbouring regions. Whilst there are traces of pre-historic musical instruments, the country has a rich heritage of folk music and mediaeval liturgical music, and from the 18th century onwards,...
  
  
• Slovak popular music
  Slovak popular music
  Popular music began to replace folk music in Slovakia beginning in the 1950s, when Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia; American jazz, R&B, and rock and roll were popular, alongside waltzes, polkas, and czardas, among other folk forms. By the end of the '50s, radios were common household items,...
  
  
• The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time
  The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time
  The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of the best album releases issued by Slovak recording artists. As the first such list presented in Slovakia, it was published by Nový čas daily on September 22, 2007....
  
  

Samples

• Download recording "Ej lúčka, lúčka široká" Slovak song from the Library of Congress' Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections; performed by Lillian Jakubcin and Emily Mertán on July 31, 1939 in Slavia, Florida
  Slavia, Florida
  Slavia is an unincorporated community in Seminole County, Florida, United States. Slavia is located along Florida State Road 426 near the southwest border of Oviedo.-History:...
  
  
• Muzička - a band playing authentic Slovak folk music.