5.3 MUSIC AND SONGS
The area of Lasowiaks is rich in folk music and songs. However, the first full elaboration of vocal folklore appeared only in 2008. It is a book by Ewa Fedyczkowska, "Pieśni Lasowiaków. Vocal folklore of the area of the former Sandomierz Forest based on archival recordings of Franciszek Kotula ”. Another study in which there are examples of songs from the Lasowiackie area, for example: "Melodies of Rzeszowski's folk carols" by Jolanta Pękacz. Single examples of songs and texts of Christmas carols also appear in ethnographic or monographic studies.
On the basis of the above-mentioned items, songs from Lasowiak can be divided into certain groups. They are:
- Wedding melodies
- Carol melodies: religious and secular carols
- Flirty and love melodies
- Harvest melodies
- Farming and pastoral melodies
- Family melodies
- Religious melodies
- Comic melodies
- Robber melodies.
The content of the wedding chants described ritual activities, e.g.
Topping out:
„Zaczynojmy te wieche wić,
Musi do nos Marysia przyść
Przysła, przysła, zapłakała
Czegóż jo sie doczekała.”
Tuning a „korowal”:
„Oj, ty korowolu bielusieńki chlebie,
Jest kwiotków na tobie , jak gwiozdek na niebie .
Oj, ty korowolu jakis ty rumiany
ino z jedny strony troche przypalony”
Secular carol melodies were a kind of love song. They were called Christmas carols under wine ". For example:
„Trzech młodzieńców, trzech winowych
II: bez sadeniek jechali :II
A łoni sie ty Marysi
II: ło ścizecke pytali :II”
Music was an inseparable element of the people's life. She accompanied him both in everyday life, at work: plucking feathers, pickling cabbage, and most of all in rituals: weddings, harvest festivals, and feasts. Music and singing conveyed the atmosphere of a given situation, conveyed emotions related to it: joy, sadness, anger, reverie, longing, suffering.
The basic composition of the Lasowiacka band were:
- the first violin known as the "prime", leading the melody line
- second violin known as the "second", which plays a harmonic and rhythmic role
- bass that emphasizes the time signature, sets the pulse and keeps the pace of the music played,
- clarinet, which appeared in bands at the end of the 19th century; when the clarinet player had great ornamental skills, he processed the main melody and even took over the role of a primitive and led the band.
With time, a second clarinet and even a trumpet were introduced to the bands. After World War II, the accordion took root in the bands, which did not bring new sound values to the music played by the band.
Musicians were usually self-taught. Both skills and instruments passed from father to son. It happened that the band was formed by a few talented brothers with their father and sometimes grandfather. The bands themselves did not have a permanent composition. The basis was a good primist or clarinetist who, depending on their needs, selected the rest of the band's line-up. Few knew the notes. Only good memory and excellent hearing helped to find the sound.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT MUSIC AND LASOWIAKS SONGS:
Fedyczkowska E. Pieśni Lasowiaków. Rzeszow 2008
Kotula F., Hej, leluja, czyli o wygasających starodawnych pieśniach kolędniczych w Rzeszowskiem, 1970
Kotula F., Folklor słowny osobliwy. Lasowiaków Rzeszowiaków i Podgórzan, 1969
