Musicology Annotation << Back From the History of Music Folkloristics of Voronezh Province (Mitrophan Pyatnitsky’s Ethnographical Record of 1920 as the New Stage in the History of Gathering) E.V. Tsvetkova The paper deals with folklore gathering activity of Mitrophan Pyatnitsky. The author considers the expedition of 1920 as the new stage of ethnographic researches of Voronezh province. In the paper Pyatnitsky’s methods of field work are described. The author gives the comparative characteristics of musical and manuscript materials of the beginning of the 20th century and recent expedition materials. Key words: Pyatnitsky, folklore, ethnography, expedition. E-mail: tsvetkova_ev@mail.ru