Kolessa, Filaret (Mikhailovich)
Kolessa, Filaret (Mikhailovich)
Kolessa, Filaret (Mikhailovich), significant Ukrainian ethnomusicologist; b. Chodowitschi, July 17, 1871; d. Lwów, March 3, 1947. He studied in Lemberg (Lwów); later took a course in musicology with Adler at the Univ. of Vienna (Ph.D., 1918). He taught at the state high school in Lemberg (from 1898); became a prof, at the Univ. of Lwów and director of the Ethnographic Museum there (1939). He laid the foundation for the comparative study of Slavonic and East European folk music.
Writings
Rytmika ukrayinskykh narodnykh pisen (Rhythm in Ukrainian Folk Songs; Lemberg, 1906-07); “Pro muzychnu formu dum” (On the Musical Form of Historical Chants), Melodiyi ukrayinskykh narodnykh dum (Lemberg, 1910; 2nd ed., rev., 1969); Varianty melodiy ukrainskykh narodnykh dum, ikh kharakterystyka i grupovannya (Variations in Melody of Ukrainian Folk Historical Chants, Their Characteristics and Classification; Lemberg, 1913); Pro genezu ukrayinskykh narodnykh dum (ukrainksi narodni dumy u vidnoshenni do pisen, virshiv i pokhoronnykh holosin) (On the Origin of Ukrainian Folk Historical Chants in Relation to Songs, Religious Songs, and Folk Laments; Lwów, 1920-22). collections:Melodii haivok, skhopleni na fonograf Y. Rozdolskym (Easter Song Melodies Recorded by Rozdolsky; Lemberg, 1909); Melodiyi ukrayinskykh narodnykh dum (Tunes of Ukrainian Historical Chants; Lemberg, 1910-13; 2nd ed., rev., 1969); “Narodni pisni ζ pivdennoho Pidkarpattya” (Folk Songs from Southern Subcarpathia), Naukoviy zbirnyk tovarystva “Prosvita” ν Uzhhorodi (1923); Narodni pisni ζ halytskoyi Lemkivshchyny: Teksty i melodiyi (Folk Songs from West Galicia, Lemky Country: Texts and Melodies; Lwów, 1929); “Narodni pisni ζ pidkarpatskoy Rusi, melodii i teksty” (Folk Songs from Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Melodies and Texts), Naukovyy zbirnyk tovarystva “Prosvita” ν Uzhhorodi, XIII-XIV (1938).
Bibliography
S. Hrytsa, F. M. K. (Kiev, 1962); O. Palamarchuk, O. Palamarchuk, M. K. (Kiev, 1989). (Kiev, 1989).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire