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Elementet e ndërtimit artistik të këngëve majekrahu
Elements of Artistic Construction of Highland Songs

Author(s): Nevrije Bislimi Ismaili
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Poetry, Ethnohistory, Albanian Literature
Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë
Keywords: historical epic; highland songs; fact; legendary epic;

Summary/Abstract: In this work are included the so-called highland songs or songs of mountaineers. These are folkloric creations who are not expanded in the whole Albanian areas. They are mostly practiced in the North folkloric zones and have their autonomy, conditioned or determined from the specifics of the way how it is practiced. During the whole work, the main features and characteristics of the highland songs or songs of mountaineers will be treated summarily. Along the treatment and argumentation of the theoretical plan, will also be realized several concrete analyses that will be elaborated to support our outcomes. We believe that in this manner it will be shown clearly, completely and generally the range of this special Albanian folkloric type. To achieve such a definition, we begin from the fact that the poetic of these songs is totally noticeable and special compared to the other types of Albanian historical songs in general. Among others, for this type of songs we can notice the way of singing, which is completely different and unrepeatable in the other types of historical songs, the poetic structure with a shortage of poems or with reduced verses, with the lack of pronunciation and comprehension of the poetic text in many cases.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 38.2
  • Page Range: 395-400
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Albanian