New Sources for Janacek's Essay Brezovska pisen and His Notation of Long-Drawn-Out Folksong

This text deals with Leos Janacek's essay Brezovska pisen (Folksong in Brezova, 1899), which was not published during the author's lifetime. In it, he described his visit to Brezova. The notations of folk songs made on this occasion as an organic component of Janacek's text were previously regarded as lost, and only a selection from them was later arranged and included in his treatise O hudebni strance narodnich pisni moravskych (On Musical Aspects of Moravian Folk Songs, 1901). It is now possible to supplement the original essay Brezovska pisen with all of the musical examples, for which originals and copies of long-drawn-out songs and dance songs are available. The newly discovered sources allow a comparison of the descriptive and prescriptive treatment of long-drawn-out songs, to which the composer attracted attention as the first observer with expert training, thereby arousing the interest of future generations of scholars to the given topic.