Stanyslav Lyudkevych’s Contribution to the History of Ukrainian Folk Music Research at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

The article explores and analyzes the activities of the famous Ukrainian composer, musical folklore collector and researcher Stanyslav Lyudkevych in the early twentieth century. The article presents an analysis of the ethnographic collection Halytsko-ruski narodni melodii (Galician-Rus Folk Melodies), which contributed to the emergence of a new direction in Ukrainian folk music ethnographic research – comparative musicology. In particular, this analysis explores structural and typological characteristics of Ukranian folk music.