Szopka z lalkami z okolic Padwi Narodowej – tradycyjne widowisko i jego repertuar muzyczny
The Nativity Scene with Dolls from the Area of Padew Narodowa – a Traditional Show and Its Musical Repertoire

Summary/Abstract: This article presents and analyses the genesis, performance context and musical repertoire of The Nativity Scene with Dolls. The phonic material analysed, deposited in The Archive of Music Religious Folklore (AMFR) at the Institute of Musicology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), was registered in 1974 in Padew Narodowa (Rzeszow Region), and research in the form of a field interview was repeated in 2022. The musical analyses include 27 pieces for which musical transcriptions were made. A detailed description and interpretation of The Nativity Scene with Dolls may be key to understanding local communities. The show reflects the folk world of values, prohibitions and orders, of attitudes to religious and ethnic minorities, to issues of the state, the perception of certain professions, etc. It also shows the image of the world of small communities, elevated to the symbolic level of acting and music.

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