Published : 2015-12-30

The Research Activities of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Hymnology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and its Music Archive Collections

Kinga Strycharz-Bogacz



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The aim of this article is to present the research activity of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Hymnology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) as well as its music collections. They consist of religious folk singing that are relevant to the written sources as well as those that exist exclusively in oral tradition and multigenerational transmission. Research on the repertoire was started in 1970 and so far there have been over 25.000 religious folk songs (among others Advent songs, Christmas carols and pastoral Christmas songs, Lent songs, Easter songs, Marian songs, songs to the Heart of Jesus, Eucharist songs, songs to the Saints, funeral songs and narrative songs) collected. Folk songs from the “living tradition” fascinate with variety and authenticity of their transmission—hence for years they have been an invaluable source of multifaceted and interdisciplinary research for many generations of ethnomusicologists, hymnologists, folklorists and ethnolinguists. Analysis of this repertoire shows processes in the development of Polish religious folk songs as well as confirms its exceptional qualities and uniqueness.

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living tradition of religious songs, Christmas carols and pastoral Christmas songs, Lent songs, Marian songs, funeral songs



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Roczniki Teologiczne · ISSN 2353-7272 | eISSN 2543-5973 · DOI: 10.18290/rt
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