Piesňový repertoár lokality Vieska-Bezdedov na strednom Považí v dokumentácii Karola Plicku
The Song Repertoire of Vieska-Bezdedov in Central Považie,as Documented by Karol Plicka

Summary/Abstract: Heuristic research thus far conducted on the manuscript collection of Karol Plicka(1894–1987) has focused on the region of Central Považie in the north-west of Slovakia.Reconstruction of the song repertoire has shown that this collector documented almost 950 songs in total, in 24 localities of this region. The article completes the identification of theregional song corpus with a treatment of the manuscript and published records from thelocality of Vieska-Bezdedov (today part of the town of Púchov). Plicka conducted field workin this locality at the inception of his activity in Slovakia. From Plicka’s written records fromthis locality, we have been able to identify 79 songs and 17 singers, from all generationalstrata. Almost half of the song records contain multipart singing in group performance(solo – tutti), as one of the style features of regional musical culture. Analysis of this songrepertoire has confirmed that Plicka documented traditional folk singing across the entirespan of the song genres.

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