Mgr. Mária Blahunková, PhD.
liturgical music of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite, musical manuscripts, music and liturgical practice, Carpathian region, 18th-century music
Mária Blahunková (1987) focuses on research of liturgical music of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite, known as Carpathian prostopinije (plainchant), and its significance in the ethnically and religiously diverse environment of eastern Slovakia, as well as parts of Ukraine, Poland, and Hungary. She studies the development of particular musical-liturgical forms, their origin and appearance in manuscript and printed collections from the 17th to 20th centuries, while also tracing their transfer into contemporary liturgical practice.
She studied musicology, as well as the theory and practice of early music, at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. She then completed her doctoral studies at the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of Slavic languages and literatures. She currently focuses primarily on heuristic research of Cyrillic manuscript sources related to musical culture in the territory of the historical Mukachevo Eparchy.
She studied musicology, as well as the theory and practice of early music, at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. She then completed her doctoral studies at the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of Slavic languages and literatures. She currently focuses primarily on heuristic research of Cyrillic manuscript sources related to musical culture in the territory of the historical Mukachevo Eparchy.