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Original scientific paper

URBAN FOLK SONGS FROM DALMATIA AS A SUBJECT OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Jerko Bezić ; Institute of Ethnology and folklore research, Zagreb


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Abstract

The paper begins with a description of the main musical
characteristics of the Dalmatian urban folk song and with an explanation of the term itself. The adjective 'urban', admittedly, conceals the fact that these songs have been sung also in villages ever since the early part of the twentieth century, but it is justified by the urban or suburban origins of the majority of these songs. Characteristically, some of them come from small townships in which urban and rural ways of life exist side by side. The development of musical culture in Dalmatian cities and towns, coupled with more developed tonal relationships, resulted in the nineteenth century in the appearance of the major key in folk singing. In this sense, the adjective 'urban' indirectly points to musically more developed tunes.

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Hrčak ID:

40468

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/40468

Publication date:

8.6.1977.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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