FOLKLORE TEXT AS A POTENTIAL GENERATOR OF THE STRUCTURE GENERATING PROCEDURES AND FORMS OF ARTISTIC ADAPTATIONS OF FOLKORE SONGS FOR A SOLO AND A PIANO

Abstract

Though, in the minds of folklore singers, a text is inherently and syncretically cohesive with the melody, in the artistic adaptation of a folklore song it is quite often treated as an individual entity exerting a considerable influence on its artistic environment. The impact of a folklore text on the components and planes of artistic adaptation is primarily dependant upon the approach to be taken by the composers themselves toward the folklore material, that is to say upon their attitude toward the planes (musical and textual). The judgments as to the influence of the folklore text planes on its artistic environment can be applied to the entire range of musical genres having dealt with the text, whether that be in a qualitative or quantitative sense, as well as in those cases when a segment is excerpted and taken as an individual entity. The research of this kind was conducted with the adaptations of folklore songs for a solo and a piano. Within the specific category of a solo song, a folklore text is taken together with the music contents of the folk melody, yet in relation to its original form, certain types of transformations were to be detected, such as: the insertion of refrain formations, distinctive in relation to the original, alternative words or syntagmas bearing no semantic relevance, the reductions of the original, repetitions which are not to be found in the original, changes in the disposition of the verses, etc. Therefore, in the process of development analysis of the folklore text genetic potentials our initial standpoint did not refer to the original texts found in the script, but to the variations to be detected in their artistic adaptations. The research analysis hereby employed in regard to the exploration of the selected material suggests the excerpts of a folklore text taken out of its artistic environment and making it subject to an extensive literary and theoretical elaborations, indicating the study of all the textual planes relevant for the future components and musical development of artistic adaptations. All of the aforementioned implies that the paper is to deal with the potentials and capacities of folklore texts by analyzing their planes, among which the most important for this research would be the following: a) the semantic plane, b) the external dynamic potential, c) affective and emotional plane (the internal dynamic potential).