Turkish Theme in Folk Ballads
Turkish Theme in Folk Ballads

Author(s): Martina Pavlicová
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Music, Modern Age, The Ottoman Empire, History of Art
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Traditional folk culture; ballad songs; Turkish themes;
Summary/Abstract: The spread of traditional folk culture phenomena over a wider area need not be associated only with tangible documents. A similar spread occurred with folklore materials, specifically with ballads – song compositions with a dramatic story and a usually tragic end. These epic, or lyrical and epic, songs narrate a story in brief but with a time sequence and respect for a cause-and-effect relationship. As mentioned by Oldřich Sirovátka (1925–1992), it is not possible to clearly definethe ballad form, as there are a lot of inter-stages between the lyrical song and the ballad: the lyrical song uses epic methods and the ballad uses lyrical means.

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