Letákové pôstne piesne a ich melódie v cirkevnej a ústnej tradícii
Broadside Lenten Songs and Their Melodies in Church and Oral Tradition

Summary/Abstract: Mutual influence and overlap of church and broadside Lenten songs in Slovak manuscript and printed sources from the 18th to the 20th century and in oral tradition. The historical layers of Lenten broadside songs (broadside ballads) and their genre variants, in relation to literary and musical style. Hagiographic and Passion epic songs, and their connection with medieval hymnography. The Passion lament and the Passion private lyric; their central status in the Baroque style layer of Lenten songs. Lenten songs with a didactic purpose, and their connection with the era of Enlightenment absolutism. The problem of the free relation between melody and text in Lenten songs and the relativity of style unity in their textual and musical components.

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