PARTICULARITĂȚI MORFOLOGICE ÎNTÂLNITE ÎN BALADELE DIN ZONA TELEORMAN
MORPHOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE BALLADS FROM THE TELEORMAN REGION

Summary/Abstract: With more than 150 years of history since the term ballad was rooted on the territory of Romania, the old traditional folk song encapsulates a wide variety of epic works. This is a declamatory genre that is sung only when requested in front of a repertoire-savvy, engaged audience that empathises strongly with the performer, resulting in a powerful communal experience. Ballad is part of the folk genres that necessitate a musical accompaniment, performed by violin and kobza or violin and dulcimer, and is found not only in Teleorman County, but across the entire Greater Wallachia territory. There are two vocal styles, according to Emilia Comișel: the syllabic style and the melismatic style. Using Alexandru Amzulescu's classification of ballads, we attempted to identify the primary categories of ballads found in the area we wished to study: fantastic, heroic, pastoral, related to the feudal court, family, and oral journals. Regarding the analysis of popular verse structure, a melodic line corresponds to a verse.

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