Świat muzyki w staropolskich kolędach i pastorałkach (na materiale tzw. Kantyczek karmelitańskich z XVII i XVIII wieku)
The world of music in Old Polish Christmas carols and Christmas songs (on the material of the so-called Kantyczki karmelitańskie (Carmelite canticles

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper presents the connections of Old Polish Christmas carols with the world of music, which are manifested in the literary aspect of the preserved texts. The object of the research included issues such as: 1) the degree of saturation of the analysed works with the vocabulary derived from the field of music or referring to that field; 2) planes where this impact is particularly visible; 3) functions fulfilled by music and musical lexis in the narrative (fictional) aspect of the works; and 4) conditioning the degree of saturation of the analysed texts with musical elements on their belonging to various genre variations of Old Polish Christmas carols. The research encompassed the 18th-century collection of Christmas carols recorded for the needs of Cracow Carmelite nuns, which included 358 texts of Christmas carols and 78 melodies, and which was published by Barbara Krzyżaniak in 1980. The author arranges the collected lexis into three major sets: 1) what is related to playing musical instruments; 2) what is related to singing; 3) what is related to dancing. What arises from the conducted research is that the lexis naming old instruments, both professional and folk ones, proved to be the best documented collection.

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