Ethnomusicological explorations in terrain result in the need of an appropriate archivisation
of the collected material. Terrain studies are an indispensable element of each ethnomusicologist
or folklorist. They provide a constant contact with the area being explored, its functioning in the
past and present. A selection of the appropriate recording method is often determined by a collection
collected (e.g. a hymn one). The alternative is to create one’s own system of archivisation
and transcription which, however, should base on the experience of earlier generations of musicologists,
folklorists or ethnomusicologists (J., M. Sobiescy, A. Czekanowska among others)
