Pieśni mszalne ks. Franciszka Walczyńskiego
The Mass songs of Rev. Francis Walczyński

Summary/Abstract: Mass songs of Rev. Francis Walczyński are the continuation of this type, existing since the second half of 18th century. The composer took over the selected lyrics from the songs that was already in existence and gave them new melodies. Mass Songs in Walczyński’s works are cycles counting mostly from 9 to 6 parts. Text variants are few. The structure of texts based exclusively on strophic structure uses stanza with 8th, 7th, 6th and in one song 4-verses. They are predominantly heterosyllabic, bound by feminine perfect rhymes, intermittently alternating and less adherent. In terms of music, the Mass songs contained in the studied set of Fr. Walczyński presents two and three¬ part layout, based on the major minor harmonic function, a melodic form characterized by a wide range of ambitus, curved and wavy direction, and second intervals. All these features show the artistic value of the music work of Rev. Walczyński, which is a testimony of the religious musical culture of the Catholic Church in Poland in the 19th and in the early 20th centuries.

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