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THE LAMENT - BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

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Dahlig P.

Musicology Today

2006

vol. 3

153-166

The lament, which is the expression of grief for the dead, has an enormous potential for intercultural research and for studies of different social groups within a particular culture, and therefore it inspires musicological and folkloristic comparative analyses. These studies take on individual profiles in different countries: semiotic (in Russian), psychological (Ukraine), axiological (Belarus) or, as in the case of Polish researchers –interpretations concern the form of the lament (pre-stanzaic, continuous) and treat it as a deposit of structural beliefs in verbal texts. Several aspects of the lament, such as beliefs as its basis, affects and socio-cultural conventions are investigated by the author. Among the features typical of the theatricalisation inherent in this stylization of grief the question of socio-cultural compensation is discussed, also in relation to musical composition. The author points out that the process of disappearance of the ritual lament from the folk culture in Western Europe was compensated in the expression of individual grief in musical art.

LAMENTS AND FAREWELL HYMNS AS TWO TRADITIONAL GENRES OF THE FUNERAL SINGING

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Urbancová H.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

2014

vol. 62

issue 2

209 – 220

Funeral laments and farewell hymns represent two genetically and typologically distinct genres of the funeral singing, now at the stage of expiry or with their historical evolution already closed. The farewell hymns were derived from the European literary tradition of valedictions, which can be mapped back to the baroque period. The funeral laments are a component of the archaic layers of orally transmitted culture, with written records and sound recordings made predominantly during the 20th century. The song material from the territory of Slovakia and from the milieu of Slovak enclaves abroad (sound records of laments from oral tradition in the second half of the 20th century, manuscript records of farewell hymns from 19th century historical sources) became the starting-point for a comparison of these two genres of funeral singing, with the aim of identifying their common and distinguishing features. Using selected genre elements (attitude to death, lyrical subject, category of time, composition of the text, tunes) it was possible to identify their typological differences and to define their functions in the funeral ceremony.

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THE LAMENT - BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

LAMENTS AND FAREWELL HYMNS AS TWO TRADITIONAL GENRES OF THE FUNERAL SINGING