Reflections On a ‘Shop’ Melodic Model in Wedding and St George’s Day Songs from Eastern and Central Serbia
Reflections On a ‘Shop’ Melodic Model in Wedding and St George’s Day Songs from Eastern and Central Serbia
Author(s): Jelena JovanovićSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Music, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: ‘Shopluk’; central Serbia; melodic model; wedding songs; St George’s Day songs; bourdon two-part singing; unison singing; morphological dominants;
Summary/Abstract: This article examines a melodic model that characterizes Serbian ‘Shop’ musical idiom both in eastern and central Serbia, where it was disseminated through migrations from the ‘Shop’ cultural region to the west and northwest. In some of the ‘Shop’ areas and in neighbouring regions in East Serbia, as well as in more remote central Serbia, examples of this model are consistent in their main characteristics, while in more remote areas in central Serbia these characteristics appear in various forms of the model. Te goal of this paper is to contribute to knowledge of the distribution of elements of ‘Shop’ musical culture in eastern and central Serbian areas.
Journal: Muzikologija
- Issue Year: 2/2017
- Issue No: 23
- Page Range: 175-197
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English