K. V. Kvitka’s Correspondence with the Academicians of Petrograd-Leningrad
Journal: FOLKLORICA - Journal of the Slavic East European and Eurasian Folklore Association
Year: 2010

If one were to list the modern era scholars in the field of musical folklore who are outstanding for their ideas and for their scholarly methodology, then one of the foremost among them would be Klement Vasyl'evych Kvitka (1880Kvitka ( -1953)). In the scholarly world he is known as a scholar of Ukrainian folk music and, more broadly, as someone who did research in Slavic, especially East Slavic, music, Russian music included. His rhythmic analysis of Russian folksong melodies has remained the ba