This study of Polish folk music examines the history and practice of the musical tradition while offering an illuminating view of a culture and its social activities. Anna Czekanowska analyzes the vocal and instrumental traditions of Polish folk music, tracing the background history, the influences of geography, politics, and social events such as the harvest, the solstice, and weddings. Czekanowska also discusses the birth of Polish ethnomusicology as a discipline and details some methodological aspects for research. The book contains numerous illustrations of instruments and cultural events, music examples, maps, a discography, and a bibliography.
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Within her study, Anna Czekanowska analyses the vocal and instrumental traditions of Polish folk music, tracing the background history, the influences of geography and politics, and the practice, often within contemporary society, of such social events as the harvest, the solstice and weddings.
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Polish culture is one of the most homogeneous cultures in eastern and central Europe, but it is also one with a very diverse background. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short dance songs, integrational power, wedding repertoire, solstice songs, folk terminology, amateur movement, folkloristic material, professional songs, friction drum, folk repertoire, folk ensembles, resettled areas, traditional legacy, final formulae, tempo rubato, drone pipe, instrumental tradition, dance structure, vocal model, magical connotations, folk performers, lyrical songs, traditional regions, harvest songs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Poland, Middle Ages, Little Poland, Oskar Kolberg, World War, Roman Catholic, Polish Commonwealth, Old Believers, Transformation of Polish, Carpathian Mountains, Greek Catholic, Karol Szymanowski, Lydian Mode, Greek Orthodox, Soviet Union, Swigtokrzyskie Mountains New!
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Polish culture is one of the most homogeneous cultures in eastern and central Europe, but it is also one with a very diverse background. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short dance songs, integrational power, wedding repertoire, solstice songs, folk terminology, amateur movement, folkloristic material, professional songs, friction drum, folk repertoire, folk ensembles, resettled areas, traditional legacy, final formulae, tempo rubato, drone pipe, instrumental tradition, dance structure, vocal model, magical connotations, folk performers, lyrical songs, traditional regions, harvest songs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Poland, Middle Ages, Little Poland, Oskar Kolberg, World War, Roman Catholic, Polish Commonwealth, Old Believers, Transformation of Polish, Carpathian Mountains, Greek Catholic, Karol Szymanowski, Lydian Mode, Greek Orthodox, Soviet Union, Swigtokrzyskie Mountains New!
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- The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Peter R. Cooke in Front Matter
- System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange (Social Science Paperbacks) by Anthony Wilden in Back Matter
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter
- Pan Tadeusz/English and Polish Text by Adam Mickiewicz in Back Matter
- Cantonese Opera: Performance as Creative Process (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bell Yung in Front Matter
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- American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots by Mark Slobin on page 119, and Back Matter
- Rough Guide to World Music Volume One: Africa, Europe & The Middle East by Simon Broughton on page 5
- Europe (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 8) by Timothy Rice on page 713
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