Review article
»Jačke« – Guardians of the Croatian folk Musical Heritage
Katica s. Katarina Koprek
Abstract
During historical exodus of Croats (during 16th and 17th century) into western parts of the Hungarian empire, lower parts of Austria and Slovakia (especially in today’s Gradišće – Burgenland) under pressure of assimilation, Croats had to struggle for their national identity. As a principal medium in preservation of their national served theis national music, i.e. folks’ songs called »jačka« – which was brought from homeland. There is an interesting correspondence between Zagreb canon Janko Barlè and some of prominent cultural employees of Burgenland – Martin Meršić, Martin Borenić, File Sedenić and Mato Meršić Miloradić. Correspondences with Meršić Miloradić testify about the presence of liturgical singing in Burgenland, chant manuscripts and their compilers during 19th century regarding and especially the presence of »jačka« songs. In the oldest notated songbooks by Jure Vajković, according to analysis by Janko Barlè, great number of old Croatian songs were preserved and were later included in Croatian liturgical chantbooks – for example in a collection named Pjevajte Gospodinu pjesmu novu (Sing unto the Lord a new song). Among them we could trace a large number of Christmas and Marian songs. We could conclude that Burgenland Croats and their songs called »jačke« are the guardians of the Croatian musical heritage in this region.
Keywords
Burgenland Croats; Burgenland-Croatian church song – »jačka«; chant manuscripts; Jure Vajković’s songbook; Janko Barlè; Mate Meršić Miloradić
Hrčak ID:
137029
URI
Publication date:
30.3.2015.
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