Elscheková-Stankovičová, Alica
Elschek Oskár, *16 June 1931 Bratislava, †10 January 2026 Bratislava, Slovak ethnomusicologist. From 1950 to 1954, he studied musicology and musical aesthetics at the University of Bratislava, and in 1979 he received his doctorate. Since 1954, he has worked at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, heading the Department of Ethnomusicology since 1959. From 1963 to 1972, he served as editor-in-chief of the journal “Slovenska hudba” and as an editor of the Musikethnologische Jahresbibliographie Europas (with I. Mačák and E. Stockmann); from 1969, he has been chairman of the Czechoslovak National Committee of the International Folk Music Council. He was an organizer of national and international ethnomusicological conferences, author of numerous comparative, historical, and theoretical works on Slovak folk music, instrumentology, and the systematics of musicology.
Writings
Pojem a základné znaky hudobného folklóru, “Hudobnovedne Studie” III, 1959
Úvod do štúdia slovenskej l’udovej hudby, 3 vols., Bratislava 1962
Porovnávacia úvodná štúdia k európskemu l’udovému viachlasnému spevu, “Hudobnovedne Studie” VI, 1963
Problems of Variation in the 18th Century Slovak Folk Music Manuscripts, “Studia Musicologica” VII, 1965
Oponická zbierka…, “Hudobnovedné štúdie” VII, 1966
Zur Typologie der Volksmusikinstrumente, “Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde” XIV, 1968 and “Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis” I, Stockholm 1969
Hudobnovedecká systematika a etnoorganológia, “Musicologica Slovaca” I, 1969 No. 1
Systém grafických a symbolických znakov pre nástrojovú typológiu aerofónov, Bratislava 1969
Typologische Arbeitsverfahren bei Volksmusikinstrumenten, “Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis” I, 1969
Mensch – Musik – Instrument. Funktionelle Schichtung der Primärformen, in: Musik als Gestalt und Erlebnis, commemorative book of W. Graf, Vienna 1970
Entwurf einer neuen musikwissenschaftlichen Systematik, “Die Musikforschung” XXVI, 1973
Gegenwartsprobleme der musikwissenschaftlichen Systematik, “Acta Musicologica” XLV, 1973 No. 1
Systematika a predmet súčasnej hudobnej vedy, “Musicologica Slovaca” IV, 1973
Instrumenty muzyczne jako przedmiot badań historycznych i antropologicznych, “Muzyka” XIX, 1974 No. 1
Der Quellenwert älterer Volksliedaufzeichnungen, in: Handbuch des Volksliedes, vol. 2, Munich 1975
Historische Quellentypen der Instrumentenkunde und die ihnen angemessenen quellenkritischen Methoden, “Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis” IV, 1976
Hajduken- und Hirtentänze in Geschichte und Gegenwart, in: Historische Volksmusikforschung, Krakow 1979
editorial work:
Methoden der Klassifikation von Volksliedweisen, with D. Stockmann, collective work, Bratislava 1969
Musikethnologische Jahresbibliographie Europas, with I. Mačák i E. Stockmann, Bratislava 1967–75