Польская песня в Беларуси: бытование, межъязыковые и стилевые аттракции
Polish songs in Belarus: presence, interlingual and stylistic attractions

Summary/Abstract: A significant number of Polish songs has preserved in Belarussian folk culture until nowadays. Those, as rule, are non-ceremonial songs – existential, love, dancing songs. In some separate regions, especially in western Belarus, Polish song traditions can be clearly traced in different kinds of ceremonial songs – Christmas carols, paschal, harvest and wedding songs. They appear as verbal (textual, verse-structural) but also as musical (rhythmic, melical) signs of different types and Polish borrowings scale in the tradition of Belarussian village. These are: inclusions of fragments (generally refrains), embodiment of certain connotations, expressions and even Polish sounds into traditional Belarussian texts. Belarussianism in Polish songs are marked out in phonetics and grammar (morphological changes). Under the influence of Polish dancing and also sentimental lyrical songs we observe the change in the early verse-sung accentuation in old Belarussian incantations (wedding, harvest songs). Heterometric verses with constant syllabic structure emerge. To a certain degree it leads to the type-genre evolution of the West Belarussian autochthonic ceremonial songs. The metric innovations create a paradigm of musical homonyms. This type of homonymy is an important stylistic indicator of mixed ethno-cultural zones.

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