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The article examines the collection "Macedonian Songs" (part of the "Slavism in Songs" series) by the Czech artist, folklorist and writer Ludvik Kuba (1863–1956). It was published in 1928 and contains song samples recorded by him in the territory of today's Republic of North Macedonia in the period 1925–1927. The purpose of the research is to determine the cross-border nature of a song heritage between several modern countries, whose borders are the result of the geopolitical changes in the Balkans in the last more than 100 years – Bulgaria, the Republic of North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia. In the text, variants of specific songs from the collection of L. Kuba are selected, ethnomusicological analyzed and compared – some of them popular in Bulgaria as well, and others – performed in the Golo Brdo area on the territory of the Republic of Albania since 1913, third – also known in Serbia. The L. Kuba's collection contains song samples recorded and arranged by him with piano accompaniment in the style of Western European music and harmony. In this case this compositional approach is not the subject of research, and the focus is placed on the melodic-rhythmic signs of the variants documented from Cuba. In the study, they are researched in a comparative plan with variants within and beyond the borders of Macedonia.
Veselka Toncheva (Sat,) studied this question.