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The village Veľké Rovné (region Považie), in north-western Slovakia, was originally one of those localities with a well-developed shepherd culture of the upland type. The first documents relating to a tinker craft in the village come from the 1820s. Later this village became a unique centre of the tinker trade, from which inhabitants went forth to practise their skills not only all over Slovakia but also in many other regions of Europe and overseas. Linked with the tinkers’ profession was a distinctive tinkers’ subculture, one component of which was traditional singing. The specific song repertoire associated with tinker craft is represented by a group of seven songs, which have been preserved in local memory in the village to the present day. This song group was taken as an object of analysis concerning the genesis of individual song types, style features as well as occasions for singing. In the all-Slovakian context this song group (as a whole) was not recorded in the older published sources, nor do the systematic studies of Slovak folk songs take account of it. The tinker songs belong to the category of occupational songs associated with traditional crafts.
Musicologica Slovaca
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2018
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vol. 9 (35)
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issue 1
103 – 124
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The manuscript collection of Slovak folk songs by Karol Plicka includes many valuable song entries, which may be regarded as an important part of the history of transcription of “drawn-out song” in Slovakia. Its core consists of songs sung in the countryside when working in the setting of the mountains and foothills. The acoustics of the setting and the function of song influenced the musical structure and mode of rendering of these songs, which was expressed especially in their specific metric-rhythmic construction. Based on the song entries by Karol Plicka from selected localities of central Považie, where the largest numbers of his entries were taken (Mariková, Dohňany, Lazy pod Makytou), we document the song genres associated with drawn-out song at work in the countryside and we clarify the mode of their transcription, from the viewpoint of this collector.
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Heuristic research thus far conducted on the manuscript collection of Karol Plicka (1894–1987) has focused on the region of central Považie in the north-west of Slovakia. Reconstruction of the song repertoire has shown that this collector documented almost 950 songs in total, in 24 localities of this region. The article completes the identification of the regional song corpus with a treatment of the manuscript and published records from the locality of Vieska-Bezdedov (today part of the town of Púchov). Plicka conducted field work in this locality at the inception of his activity in Slovakia. From Plicka’s written records from this locality, we have been able to identify 79 songs and 17 singers, from all generational strata. Almost half of the song records contain multipart singing in group performance (solo – tutti), as one of the style features of regional musical culture. The analysis of this song repertoire has confirmed that Plicka documented traditional folk singing across the entire span of the song genres.
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