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Przemiany w wykonawstwie ludowych śpiewów religijnych z Wąwolnicy (1970-2020). Konfrontacja materiałów archiwalnych z najnowszymi badaniami terenowymi

Author(s): Alicja Habza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

This article addresses the issue of the performance and variability of folk religious chants from Wąwolnica in Lublin Region from the perspective of transformations, the tracing of which has been made possible by comparing contemporary research expeditions (2019-2020) to the results of archival research from 1970. A selection of the most representative examples of the specifics of a community’s singing is presented in the form of musical transcriptions and by the use of a graphic record of the performance of the songs, acquired through archival and contemporary recordings. The transformations of the chant repertoire, the acceleration of the tempo of some performances, and the reduction of vocal ornamentation, while retaining the features of the melodic-rhythmic variation inherent in the local performance tradition, appear to be characteristic of such singing.

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Miejsce i funkcja pieśni oraz przyśpiewek korowajowych w obrzędzie weselnym na Podlasiu

Author(s): Beata Maksymiuk-Pacek,Joanna Szadura / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

The aim of this article is to discuss the function and place of korovai songs and couplets in the traditional wedding rituals of Podlachia. This analysis is based on the songs and couplets accompanying the preparation and sharing of the korovai ([wedding-cake]; Pol. korowaj; Ukr. коровай [korovai], Russ. before the 1956: коровай [korovai], modern: каравай [karavai], Old East Slavic: караваи [karavai]), and which were taken from the volumes entitled Podlasie [Podlachia] and Lubelskie [Lublin Region] that were published in the series “Polska pieśń i muzyka ludowa” [Polish Folk Songs and Music], from selected volumes of Oskar Kolberg’s Dzieła wszystkie [The Complete Works] and the works of various documentalists and researchers of the eastern cultural borderland. The repertoire of songs was arranged according to the scenario of the traditional wedding ceremony. When choosing the sample texts, the authors took their subjects into consideration and analysed them in terms of language and culture, but not that of music. On this basis, they attempted to determine the function of the korovai songs and couplets.The analysis undertaken confirms that not only is the korovai one of the cultural phenomena of Podlachia, but also an important component of the identity of its inhabitants. The songs related to the specific role of the korovai in the wedding ritual are characterised by both an archaic and unique character, and a rich symbolic content. They fulfil magical, scenario and instructional functions.

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Szopka z lalkami z okolic Padwi Narodowej – tradycyjne widowisko i jego repertuar muzyczny

Author(s): Tomasz Rokosz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

This article presents and analyses the genesis, performance context and musical repertoire of The Nativity Scene with Dolls. The phonic material analysed, deposited in The Archive of Music Religious Folklore (AMFR) at the Institute of Musicology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), was registered in 1974 in Padew Narodowa (Rzeszow Region), and research in the form of a field interview was repeated in 2022. The musical analyses include 27 pieces for which musical transcriptions were made. A detailed description and interpretation of The Nativity Scene with Dolls may be key to understanding local communities. The show reflects the folk world of values, prohibitions and orders, of attitudes to religious and ethnic minorities, to issues of the state, the perception of certain professions, etc. It also shows the image of the world of small communities, elevated to the symbolic level of acting and music.

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From Dhol-Tasha to Tassa: Tradition and Transformation in Indian Trinidadian Tassa Drumming

Author(s): Christopher L. Ballengee / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2022

The North Indian dhol-tasha drumming tradition was spread globally by the British indentureship system, which began in the 1830s and sent millions of men, women, and children to work in agricultural and industrial colonies around the world. While distinct dhol-tasha variants emerged in many places where indentured laborers settled, the most vibrant of these is tassa drumming in the southern Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago. While maintaining obvious and measurable links with its Indian forebears, tassa has undergone significant transformations in instrument construction, repertoire and performance practice. The essay concludes by arguing that such innovations suggest tassa is not a mere example of cultural survival, but a dynamic art form grounded in a distinct Indian aesthetic yet also thoroughly Caribbean in its diasporic creativity.

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Muzykujące istoty nieziemskie: kulturowe przemiany obrzędowej antymuzyki i antyinstrumentów

Author(s): Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

This article refers to the notions of otherworldly beings, both good and bad, playing on various musical instruments, which have been a significant part of European culture from the Middle Ages through to the present day. This phenomenon of a ritual uproar has been long documented in folk culture, mainly from the 19th century, performed on so-called anti-instruments and termed anti-music. Nowadays in Kashubia, in the era of stage folklore, the old ritual anti-instruments, i.e. the devil’s violin and burczybas, have become percussion instruments in Kashubian folk bands. They play an additional, or perhaps a basic, function, as a sign of the regional identity of the Kashubians. The subject of music-making supernatural beings has also become fashionable in contemporary folk art in Poland. Music-making angels are often presented, but devils too, with various instruments, including folk ones. The disappearance of the traditional belief in the folk metaphysical vision of the world has made it possible to “equip” devils with those anti-instruments that had long been a human weapon against them. In folk art, images of this kind took on a grotesque character.

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La notation chiffrée de Krzysztof Trebunia-Tutka pour l’apprentissage du violon en Podhale: à la recherche d’un modèle

Author(s): Marie Renaudin / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2022

A numerical notation was recently published for the learning of fiddle melodies in the Podhale region. This work – containing material from the history of the region, as well as music writing and numerical notation – stands out, in that its author (Trebunia-Tutka) is a local musician. Why and for whom is he writing? As a teacher, he is writing first and foremost for learners of music. Thus, this publication offers an opportunity to reflect upon the relationship between writing and orality in Podhale music. Comparing recordings of performances with the numerical notation of the melody gives insights into the author’s own choices in writing, and allows for the distinguishing of standards in musical variations. Therefore, this analysis may shed some light on musical grammar. This paper explores the hypothesis that the numerical notation, as a simplified version of the melody, gives reason to think that its author has a “template” in mind (Lortat-Jacob 93-111).

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Między starą a nową ojczyzną – muzyczna aktywność cymbalistów na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 50. XX wieku

Author(s): Gabriela Gacek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

In this article, I would like to describe the musical activity of the dulcimer players who moved to Lower Silesia after World War II as a result of being expelled from the pre-war Polish eastern borderlands: the Vilnius region and East Galicia. Being new settlers in the so called Recovered Territories, surrounded by people who came both from their native and other regions, dulcimer players tried to continue their musical activity. I examine their different ways of adapting to a new situation and new place of residence, by building new dulcimers, joining interregional folk bands, attempting individual music-making based on the performance of dance music from their own region, or establishing an ensemble consisting of high school students. In my article, I draw on examples from archival recordings from the 1950s made by Józef Majchrzak (1909-1985), the Polish folklorist, musicologist and radio editor who worked for Polish Radio Wrocław.

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Transformacja praktyki muzycznej kapel Rzeszowiaków z perspektywy koncepcji zmiany potencjału Marcii Herndon

Author(s): Tomasz Nowak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

This article is devoted to the changes in the musical practice of Rzeszowiak (south-eastern Poland) bands, analysed from the perspective of Marcia Herndon’s concept of the potential of change. The basic concepts are process, potential, and an internal dynamic equilibrium. The factors determining this equilibrium are cognition, time/motion, patterned sound and context/performance. The research material consists of interviews conducted by associates of the Museum of Folk Culture in Kolbuszowa in 2014-2016 in the Rzeszów region.

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Inspiracje polskim folklorem i pieśnią religijną w koncertach fortepianowych Wojciecha Kilara

Author(s): Joanna Miklaszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

The aim of this article is to show the relationship between the musical material and the aesthetic layer of Wojciech Kilar’s piano concertos and the Polish folklore tradition, as well as that of Polish religious songs and liturgical chants. Kilar’s two concertos for solo piano and the orchestra that are analysed in this article were composed in 1996-1997 and 2011, respectively. The folklore influences are most evident in Piano Concerto No. 2 which alludes to songs from the Podhale region. On the other hand, in both of Kilar’s concertos there are strong links to Polish religious songs and liturgical singing, appearing both as a musical quotation and (more often) as merely a reminiscence. In the further part of this article, referring to Mieczysław Tomaszewski’s methodology, the four stylistic idioms that make up the composer’s individual musical style in the third period of his creative activity are discussed. These are religious music, neoromanticism, folklore and postminimalism.

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Od źródła do współczesności – ewolucja folkloru instrumentalnego w Beskidzie Śląskim (przykład Trójwsi)

Author(s): Magdalena Szyndler / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

Nowadays, in folk culture, various changes can be observed happening. These are also occurring in the musical folklore of the Silesian Beskids. This region has a rich tradition of developing musical repertoires, performance styles and folk instruments. The guardians of this tradition are musicians, frequently local ones, who pass it on to younger generations. They educate the younger Beskid musicians and ensure that the tradition is kept alive. At the same time, the repertoire and the construction of folk instruments are changing. This is taking place for creative, but also pragmatic and commercial, reasons, including, for example, the use of polycarbonate reeds in the Silesian bagpipe.

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Przemiany żydowskich tradycji muzycznych a przemiany żydowskich instytucji muzycznych na przykładzie przedwojennej Galicji

Author(s): Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

In this article, the transformation of Jewish musical traditions are traced in relation to those of traditional Jewish musical institutions operating in the 50 years before the outbreak of World War II in Galicia. The basis for this study is primarily source material from the interwar period. The author discusses the roles and functions of traditional Jewish musicians such as the chazzan (cantor), the folk singer and the folk instrumentalist (klezmer), as well as showing their new roles and ways of functioning on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Afterwards, the impact of these institutional transformations on the musical repertoire of Galician Jews is presented.This text sketches out the continuum of the Jewish musical tradition from the end of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century and describes the smooth transition between the so-called folk music and contemporary Jewish art and popular music. At the centre of all of these changes stands the human being – the creator, performer and recipient of the arts of chazzanut, folk songs and instrumental music, and the main cause of the changes occurring within this “human-organised sound”.

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The Sound and Musical Landscape of a Non-Existent City: Contributions to Research on Sound Archaeology Based on the Example of the Pre-War Jewish Quarter in Lublin

Author(s): Joanna Posłuszna / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2022

Prior to the Second World War, the multicultural city of Lublin was an important centre of Jewish culture. Of that period, only Brama Grodzka [City Gate], which used to be the passageway between the Christian and the Jewish parts of Lublin, has “survived”. Nowadays, it houses Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN [City Gate – Theatre NN], a cultural centre which provides display areas for commemorative exhibitions and organises various cultural and educational events. In the 1990s, a permanent project on the everyday pre-war life in the “Jewish city” (as well as the Jews’ situation during the time of the German occupation) was launched here. The collected source material was integrated into commemorative exhibitions. These projects show that the past of non-existent Jewish quarters can be reconstructed not only visually, but also acoustically, making it possible to recreate the ethnomusical landscape of the city that has ceased to exist. This article presents the sound and musical landscape of the city of Lublin and its vicinity, using the example of the Jewish quarter of Lublin, taking into account traditional music and its various transformations.

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Tańce ludowe i narodowe w działalności Zofii Kwaśnicowej

Author(s): Barbara Głasek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

Zofia Kwaśnicowa was one of the most outstanding teachers of the Central Institute of Physical Education, renamed the Józef Piłsudski Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw in 1938. For the needs of both the physical education staff and of general education, she developed a methodology of teaching folk dances and music and movement exercises. This was preceded by four years of ethnographic research (1931-1935), covering almost the entire area of the Second Polish Republic. She acquired original dance folklore from many regions which was then introduced into school curricula in the interwar period and was continually taught until the end of the 1970s. The aim of this work is to present the merits of Zofia Kwaśnicowa in the development of the methodology of teaching folk and national dances, as well as music and movement classes for the needs of education. Research methods from the field of historical sciences have been used, primarily critical analysis and the interpretation of documents, primary and secondary sources, as well as the historical interpretation of facts.

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Wybrane refleksje nad audiacją gordonowską

Author(s): Maciej Kołodziejski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2022

This article defines the concept of musical audiation and attempts to confront Edwin E. Gordon’s theory of music learning with pedagogical, psychological and philosophical thought concerning the issues discussed. The main aim of the author’s considerations is to reflect upon the category of audiation, understood as a kind of musical thinking, and which is the basis for musical talent and achievements and considered to be a key concept and pillar in the theory of learning music by the American music educator and psychologist E. E. Gordon. Audiation is considered in several contexts: definitional and syntactical, the teaching and learning of music, the parallels between learning music and language, and also in the context of the operationalisation of musical patterns (rhythm and/or tonal) as the basic condition for the development of human musical thinking. E. E. Gordon’s theory of music learning has been present in the Polish educational market for over 20 years and, due to the need for an in-depth theoretical analysis of this theory in terms of its formalities and functionality in the development of research, the category of music audiation has now become the subject of such analyses.

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Nederlandbeelden in Oorlog met het kleine Nederland (1965). Een nooit opgevoerde twee-akter van Rudolf Sloboda

Author(s): Benjamin Bossaert / Language(s): Dutch Issue: 5S/2022

The Slovak writer Rudolf Sloboda is considered one of the leading authors of Slovak literature since World War II. His oeuvre is divided into prose, which, according to Sloboda expert Zora Prušková, can be called extremely autobiographical, and several collections of poems, essays and children’s books, but in addition he also wrote several film scenarios and two theatre plays. Most biographers forget to mention the two-act play that was published in 1965 in two issues of the literary magazine Slovenské pohľady as Vojna s malým Holandskom (War with the Little Netherlands), because this play was never performed. In this contribution, some striking features of the play are explained. It also outlines the context in which the play originated, which was accompanied by censorship by the Communist regime. Finally, it is argued that, if the geographical names and the characters are examined closely, a chronotopical counterpart to Alfred Jarry’s absurdist play Ubu Roi was created here, with the Netherlands deemed an abstract enough concept.

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Latijns schooldrama in de Nederlanden

Author(s): Jana Engelbrechtová / Language(s): Dutch Issue: 5S/2022

This contribution first gives a brief overview of the development of Latin-language education in the Low Countries in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Subsequently, the position of Renaissance Latin school drama in the Low Countries is examined in relation to the incorporation of Middle Dutch material, with special attention paid to the play Elckerlijc. It also examines which themes are shared in both Middle Dutch drama and Latin school drama. The three most important generations of school drama authors are also briefly introduced. The period of these school dramas is that of the Dutch Renaissance of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. This period is illustrated with examples of several authors and plays, in particular the Acolastus by Guillemus Gnaphaeus and the Hecastus by Georgius Macropedius.

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Vondel of Lope de Vega? Over Spaans toneel en Nederlandse actrices

Author(s): Olga van Marion / Language(s): Dutch Issue: 5S/2022

This article examines the popularity of the most important plays performed in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg between 1650 and 1670 on the basis of the receipts recorded in the archives. This recent research into Dutch theatre history and the Amsterdamse Schouwburg shows that the public enjoyed a repertoire that was much more international and multifaceted than just the classic Biblical tragedies mentioned in the literary histories. From the mid-seventeenth century, it was the translations of Spanish comedias that attracted a large audience. People enjoyed both the spectacle and the important roles for women. This had major consequences for the Schouwburg’s staff, because, for the first time, actresses had to be hired. These Dutch actresses were versatile divas with a great sense of drama, and the audience came especially to see them. Further research into this topic is recommended.

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The Danube, a Major Natural Element of the Traditional Urban Landscape

Author(s): Maria Urmă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The landscape is one of the factors that define the characteristic image of a settlement. The natural settings represent the major and primary features of a site. Highlighting them is a method of revealing its traditional image, given that the relationship between man and nature used to be more significant in the past. Watercourses are almost always adjacent to the historical city centres and water is the natural element along which traditional human settlements were built. For this reason, in the revitalization process of historical city centres, the riverside or maritime site should play important roles. The development of urban watercourses should be a principle of urban renewal. The Romanian section of the Danube River has favoured the development of representative urban structures. The development of the Danube Cliffs in Galaţi, which restored the connection between the historical centre and the Danube, the street network in the historical centre of Brăila, characteristic of the traditional settlements along the riverbank, and the urban structure of Sulina are examples of traditional settlements in which the major natural element dominates the urban landscape. This paper argues that the traditional principles, by which historical settlements were established, emerging naturally and gradually as a result of the communion between man and nature, should be reconsidered and applied as principles of urban regeneration, through characteristic procedures. These procedures may range from the preservation or reconstruction of traditional urban silhouettes to the introduction of works of art in coherent ensembles, based on projects that complement contemporary studies of urbanism.

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Editorial 2/2023

Author(s): Zora Hudíková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Will AI steal jobs from artists and creatives? Technological progress has always brought, both to the fields of mass media communication and the field of art, on the one hand, the fear of limitation or even extinction of existing production, and on the other hand, the opportunity for development, a new kind of creativity, originality and sometimes even the facilitation of creative procedures...

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Ceremoniał przyjęcia poselstwa Stanisława Bieniewskiego na dworze moskiewskim w 1667 roku

Author(s): Marta Król / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2023

The diplomatic contacts between the Republic of Poland and Russia over the centuries have always aroused great interest. New research is constantly deepening the historical, political, and archaeological understanding concerning the relations between these two countries. Looking more closely at these contacts in the 17th century, it can be seen that the meaning of the terms ‘diplomacy’, ‘diplomatic ceremony’ and, importantly, that of ‘envoy’ are different to what we hear and read today. Based on research concerning the dealings between the Moscow state and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century, it is possible to observe dynamically changing relations, from friendship to hatred and contempt, leading to armed conflicts. References to the great legations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Moscow state can be found in Polish, as well as Russian, literature. The names of the envoys, dates, and accompanying events can also be found therein. However, a problem arises when it comes to the giving of diplomatic gifts and the setting for the royal audience during the legation. Both the issue of gifts, as well as that of the ceremony, have not yet been dealt with in any monograph, and there is no description of individual works, what the audience hall or the feast looked like, or what the guests and the tsar were wearing during the legation. This article is based on a doctoral dissertation which attempts to present the setting of diplomatic ceremonies during the visits of envoys from the Republic of Poland to the court of the Moscow state in 1667, as well as the gifts given by the envoys to the tsar.

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