Sarajevo : Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo
Abstract
In this paper I will present multipart singing in the Sarajevo-Romanija region, which is one of the most archaic forms of vocal rural tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For this presentation will be used an example of a female group “Planinke” from Pale, which were the main indicators for my fieldwork research. The elements that will be the focus of the work are: the context of song performances, song performance, classification of forms, terminology and forms. All the above elements will be presented with certain vocal examples, both with audio, video examples and notation. Analyzing selected songs, it was confirmed that songs with their tonal, metro-rhythmic, melopoetic and polyphonic features are part of traditional music practices of a wider region (Sarajevo-Romanija). Also, all the songs belong to the second category of forms of older rural singing (according to Cvjetko Rihtman’s classification) in which voices are equal and interwoven, and the interval of the second is considered as consonant interval, most often it is the ending of the song. In this kind of traditional music, sometimes it is difficult to accept the fact that it exists as profoundly organized sound, behaviour conducted and carried with rules, although freely
and spontaneously listened, accepted, adopted, performed and passed on. Regardless of the proximity of larger urban centers and forms of newer traditions that have become the majority in other and similar environments, the aforementioned vocal forms indicates the archaic
characteristics and vitality of the vocal tradition of this region that has been held up to today. This work can be classified as a new research because it is the result of my field research in the past few years. For presentation of the work, PowerPoint will be used with audio and video examples
