Početak fascinacije folklorom u bosanskohercegovačkom kompozitorstvu: idiomatika sevdalinke u solo pjesmi Niz bašču Milana Prebande
The Emergence of Folklore Fascination in BosnianHerzegovinian Compositional Practice: Sevdalinka Idioms in Milan Prebanda’s Art Song Niz bašču

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the idiomatic characteristics of two versions of sevdalinka U bašči mi sumbul cvati [In my Garden a Hyacinth Grows] (Bartók and Lord, 1951) and Niz bašču mi potok teče [Down the Garden, a Brook Runs] as reflected in the construction of the art song Niz bašču [Down the Garden] (1965) by Milan Prebanda. As a representative of the first generation of composers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prebanda was among the earliest to engage with Bosnian-Herzegovinian urban folk song through a compositional procedure that Vlado Milošević, in his systematization of the use of folklore in art music, defines as a “sublimated form of the emanation of musical folklore”. By isolating the textual layer of the source song, together with its original expressive and formal musical characteristics, this study analytically traces the processes through which these elements are transformed and transferred into an original composition structured according to the formal conventions of the art song genre. Consequently, the article also addresses the historical, cultural, and aesthetic implications of the fascination with folklore that emerged in Bosnian-Herzegovinian compositional practice in the aftermath of the Second World War and it has continued to shape it to the present day.

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