As priest Władysław Sarna says:
The inhabitants of the Krosno poviat, like all Polish villagers in general, have a great love for music. (...) They learn to play only by ear and it proves the great musical talent of the villagers, that whatever song they hear, they can win it immediately. The village band consists of three, sometimes four musicians, they are: violinist (violinist), clarinetist and bassist or cymbalist, or also two violinists, bassist, clarinetist. Therefore they sing:
Play musician you'll be in heaven
And the bassist next to you. Dulcimer a bit further, Because he is not beating the dulcimer badly.
They play at weddings, after-parties, harvest festivals. In some parts (Suchodół, Głowienka, Krościenko Niżne) they organize music at the end of September, when the devoted youth are to go to the army. (…) There are oberek dancing, a kind of a waltz, a tremblante of polka and a krakowiak. The dances are given names: dance, big dance, mad, cheek, tram. While dancing, they are very lively, they stamp their feet, give each other desire with shouts, raise one hand up, clap their hands and dance till they drop. When dancing, it sometimes comes to a fight, when two simultaneously want to pay for the dance and one refuses to give in to the other90.
According to Bartosz Gałązka, a specialist in traditional songs, the area around Krosno is not rich in terms of repertoire. A secondary, imposed repertoire dominated here - they were mainly songs related to the "wiciarskim" movement and songs from Galician school songbooks (education was very developed here). In addition, there is a regional repertoire in Pogórze derived from the repertoire of the Galician army. Where the recruits went to the Austrian army, they learned melodies that are common on both sides of the border - returning to their native villages they brought these melodies, songs and dances, and this repertoire dominated the previous one. The aforementioned repertoire at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth century was considered the so-called popular. The common repertoire in Pogórze is much less extensive than the repertoire of the neighboring Lemkos or Rzeszowiacy.
Examples of selected songs characteristic for Pogórze collected by Bartosz Gałązka (these are texts collected from the inhabitants of Pogórze born in 1900-1920, with the least stage distortion) can be found in the songbook .
Examples of songs from Pogórze can be found in the works of Oskar Kolberg.
The music of Pogórzans was and is based on traditional instruments. The typical line-up of the band are strings - violin, viola and bass, and wind instruments - mainly clarinet, sometimes trumpet. Cymbals play a very important role in the music of Podkarpacie (including Pogórze) - they influence the original sound of local bands. Accordion is often added to this traditional line-up of the band.
Traditional instrument makers:
Video about Stanisław Wyżykowski: Lirnik from Haczów .
More information on this website .
There are many song and dance groups as well as folk bands presenting the musical traditions of Pogórze in Pogórze, the most famous being:
The band was founded in 1973. In the 1980s, the group "Pogórzanie" was one of the most dynamically operating folk groups in the region. During its activity, the group realized a program in the form of Krosno, Rzeszów, Lublin and Kashubian dances, as well as national dances: polonaise, krakowiak, kujawiak and oberek. It also has Slovak dances in its repertoire, and two ritual shows prepared according to its own script, ie: "Młocka" and Christmas customs called "Christmas Eve".
The band was founded in 2005. The band performs with the folk dance group "Pogórzanie". The band's instrumental composition is in line with the tradition of this part of the region and they are: violin, double bass, accordion, clarinet, cymbals. The band also performs alone. The repertoire includes Rzeszów and Krosno melodies and chants, entertainment and dance pieces, Gypsy and Lviv melodies, and music of the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century.
The band was founded in 1995. "Trzcinicoki" is a multigenerational band, playing in the nine-person line-up of instruments typical of Pogórze Jasielskie (violin, prim and seconds, double bass, trumpet, clarinet, cymbals and accordion). They perform the traditional music repertoire of the Pogórze region, ritual and dance, songs and chants obtained from oral reports from the oldest inhabitants of Trzcinica and the surrounding area. They play with temperament, lively, and perfectly meet the expectations of the audience. In 2010, the folk band "Trzcinicoki" received the Oskar Kolberg.
The band was founded in 1997 at the Municipal Cultural Center in Miejsce Piastowe. The band consists of a violin, accordion, clarinet, cymbals and double bass. The band promotes the folk music of the Podkarpacie region. The folk band "Piasty" is the winner of many awards and distinctions, they have two albums, as well as recordings for Polish Radio and TVP.
The youth folk band "Young Harta" was founded in 2004 at the School Complex No. 2 in Harta on the initiative of Andrzej Sowa, a music teacher from the musical family of Sowie from Piątkowo. The main goal of the band's activity was to continue the repertoire of the famous Kapela Sowów from Piątkowo. The band also draws from the repertoire of the neighboring villages of Pogórze Dynowskie.
The band was founded in 1963 on the initiative of Zofia Olejko. The band has an original repertoire referring to grabownicko-brzozowski melodies. The repertoire includes walki, tramlanki, polki and cut polka dots for dancing, obereczki and church melodies. The famous but no longer existing folk bands from Pogórze included Kapela Sowów from Piątkowska and the band "Stachy" from Krosno.
According to family records, the Sowie family settled in Piątkowska at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The ancestor of the family probably came from Hungary during the Napoleonic Wars. The Sow family has been playing music for generations, there were many very good musicians in it. The founder of the band was Wojciech Sowa (1911-1977) - one of the best folk violinists. In the Sowie family, next to the violin, cymbals were a popular instrument. For several dozen years, the Sow band played the melodies of their great-grandfathers, not contaminated with "artistic treatments". Kapela Sowów recorded the first album in Poland with authentic folk music. It was one of the oldest folk bands in Poland.
The band was founded in 1965 at Krośnieńskie Huty Szkła. The name was given because of the three great musicians performing in the band: Stanisław Guzik (prym violin), Stanisław Wyżykowski (cymbals) and Stanisław Mrozek (1st clarinet). The band's repertoire included over 200 songs and chants of Pogórze. At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the "Stachy" band was considered the most popular folk band in Poland. In 1969, she toured Poland with the bands "Skaldowie" and "Trubadurzy".
There are two reviews of folk singers, bands and instrumentalists in Pogórze. These reviews are eliminations to the Festival of Folk Bands and Singers in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River.
The text comes from the study "INVENTORY OF CULTURAL RESOURCES OF THE BORDERLAND - THE ETHNOCARPATHIA PROJECT" realized by the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University for the District Museum in Rzeszów.
Author: Ms Magdalena Fołta.
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