Przyśpiewka ludowa — cechy konstytutywne gatunku

• Authors: Joanna Szadura

Title variants

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Chant — constitutive features of the genre

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The presented analysis is aimed at determining constitutive features of ditty as a genre of Polish folklore. The study is based on a collection of about 1500 ditties published in a volume Polska pieśń i muzyka ludowa. Źródła i materiały, part 4. Lubelskie (Lublin 2011). The material has been juxtaposed with similar collections so. Nowego Kolberga?, and also with the nineteenth-century collections of Oskar Kolberg. The comparison resulted in establishing several features that are essential for the genre: relation to the music culture of a region and the kind of music popular in the area, which reflects the geography of ditty. The constitutive features of the genre were established by a textological analysis conducted according to the eight-point model of genre description by J. Bartmiński and S. Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska. Ditty as a genre of Polish folklore is characterised by: resulting from intentions (making humorous/malicious/instructional comments) addressativity and dialogism; cyclical nature; describing the real everyday life both from a perspective of “here and now” and in the omnitemporal perception; thematic and melodic easiness for adapting to a situation (adaptive potential); multiple variability (at both text and music planes); diversity of stylistic registers (occurrence both in the high and low style); formulism; loose assigning of text to melody and short form.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Język a Kultura
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 23
• Pages: 383 – 395

Contributors

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Joanna Szadura

• Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie