„Do Ciebie, Panie, pokornie wołamy...” – pieśń barska i jej melodyczne rodzeństwo
“Do Ciebie, Panie, pokornie wołamy... [We humbly cry to You, Lord...]”: A Song of Bar Confederates and Its Melodic Siblings

Summary/Abstract: “U źródeł nurtu narodowego w muzyce polskiej” (“Sources of the National Trend in the Polish Music”) was published in the year 1990 by Lucjan Cieślak, a musicologist of the city of Łódź. This collection of political poems of the Era of Stanisław August Poniatowski performed to given melodies remained unnoticed by literary historians. Because in Cieślak’s work texts (130) and melodies (41) form separate groups, it was advisable, for literary research, to match texts to melodies. In effect, the most lyrics (14) were linked to the melody of a song of Bar Confederates “Do Ciebie, Panie, pokornie wołamy...” (“We Humbly Cry to You, Lord...”). 7 of them are contrafacta of the song of Bar Confederates, and 7 are to be considered as versions of other contrafacta made to this melody. We identify 6 poems by their authors who were Antoni Hoffman, Antoni Sosenkiewicz, Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin, Franciszek Jaksa Makulski (one poem each), and two poems by Ignacy Krasicki, namely “Pieśń na dzień 3 maja” (“Song for the 3rd of May”) and “Do Boga” (“Do Ciebie, Panie, wznosiem nasze prośby...”) (“To Lord <To You, Lord, We Raise Our Pleas...>”), which, until Cieślak’s publication, were regarded only as poems. All 14 songs are classified and provisionally described in the paper.

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