Slovakia is an enormous reservoir of folk music. People in this country themselves designating how "singing nation". Many musicological studies evidence that Slovak folk music is indigenous and has ancient origin, even in respect of neighbours. Scientific designations determining Slovak folk music were come from the late 19th century onwards and set in the Slovak modern history of musicological research, but these researches have rootage in Slovak nationally renascent from 19th century, when many leading personalities of Slovak general life were beginning devote with folk traditions and these researches too refers at them.
Composers such as Jan Levoslav Bella began to include Slovak folk music in their compositions, and Slovak music was collected and used by composers such as Bela Bartok, Jan Cikker and Eugen Suchon.
In November 2005 the fujara (Slovak shepherds' pipe) and its music were named Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
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