ORNAMENTED SINGING IN THE FOLK SONGS OF THE SLOVAKS IN STARÁ PAZOVA, SERBIA

Kristina  Lomen

doi:10.5937/newso2260106L

Kristina Lomen Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2260106L

Keywords: ornamented singing, folk song, ethnic enclave, local repertoire, ornamented styles

Abstract

The traditional songs of the Slovaks in Stará Pazova in Vojvodina, Serbia, have several peculiarities. Their ornamentation is unusual not only in comparison with the folk songs of the other Slovak localities in Vojvodina, but also with the repertoire of Slovak songs in present-day Slovakia. After an overview of the documentation of ornamented singing in this locality, the author proposes a typology of the ornaments and specifies three ornamented styles. She points out their diversity when rendered by the older and the younger generation and discusses the genesis of ornamented singing in the Slovak folk songs of this locality.

Author Biography

Kristina Lomen, Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

Kristina Lomen, PhD, studied music in Belgrade and Bratislava. She graduated from the Department of Music Theory of the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She works as a scientist at the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where she was an internal doctoral student. She specializes on the music of ethnic minorities and groups and on the analysis and classification of musical styles. Her research has focused on the traditional songs of the Slovak minority in Vojvodina, Serbia, drawing on the results of the schools of ethnomusicology in Central Europe and the Balkans.