Baština (Jan 2014)
Leposavić: Vocal tradition as the witness of ethnic origin of population
Abstract
Ethnic origin of population from the area of the municipality of Lerposavić indicates Dinara's areas from which ancestors of today'e families inhabiting these regions arrived in the 18th century. As the crucial witness to the determined historical data may be served music, retained as the part of inheritance, and which expresses strong links with the spirit of home areas of this population by characteristic manners of vocal tradition. By studying of selected chants collected in the area of the municipality of Leposavić some of basic characteristics of vocal tradition had been singled out, and afterwards parallel with real Montenegrin chants was performed, thus supposed ethnic similarity of local population with the one of Dinara's areas was illustrated. Chants grouping indicates the potential of separate characteristics performing regarding the function, that is the part of everyday life they are dedicated to. From this aspect the impression of element of modernization identification, which influenced the inflows of some construction manners of melodic-rhytmic flows, by which a specific music dialect was built based on the fusion of original and more modern elements. The mentioned elements are based on temperization due to the use of more modern (temperized) instruments, and metric corectness of chant as well. These conclusion become evident under the consideration of spiritual chant, the part of the oldest tradition which, under the belonging to the genre of spiritual music, could never fall under the influence of recent (instrumental) traditions. By further study of chants it was indicated the similarity of manners of vocal traditions with the ones of melody building of specific vocal-instrumental genre, by singing with fiddle. A cloze connection of the mentioned instrument is well known, and way of singing as well, with original Montenegrin areas, by which one more evidence on the hypotheses raised at the beginning of the paper was submitted. All submitted considerations indicate the great role of music as the witness of metanastasic movements, which served in this paper as the final receipt of available historical data.
