Ivan Yuhasevych’s (1798) Spivanyk: Rediscovery in the Slavonic Library, Prague

• In Event: National Awakeners in Carpathian Rus’

Abstract

Ivan (Ioann) Yuhasevych (c.1741, Príkra, Prešov region – 1814, Nevytske near Uzhhorod) was one of the most famous collectors of liturgical, paraliturgical, and secular songs in the historic Carpathian Rus’ region during the late eighteenth century. During his lifetime, Yuhasevych published five collections of songs (Spivanyk or Pisennyk) dated 1761–1763, 1798, 1807, 1811 and 1812, (period and new sentence) By chance, the 1798 manuscript was found recently in the Slavonic Library in Prague. This presentation will analyze Yuhasevych’s Spivanyk (1798) and its 271 songs with musical notation, which makes it an important source for the study precisely of liturgical, paraliturgical, and secular songs in Western Ukraine, and especially the historic Carpathian Rus’ region.

Author

• Rita Lyons Kindlerova, National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)