Institute of Musicology SASA

The coexistence of older and newer two-part folk singing in the village of Prekonoga (Southeastern Serbia) as an example of bimusicality

“…there exist several publications with fundamental ethnomusicological material (i.e. field recordings and music transcriptions) from the end of the nineteenth century, unfortunately published no earlier than the beginning of the 1930s (Ђорђевић /Đorđević/ 1931), from the period of the 1960s (Petrović andIlijin 1963-1965), from the end of the 1980s (in Девић /Dević/1992, there are transcriptions of his material collected in the 1960s and the end of the 1980s, and later one part of his sound recordings is published in Golemović 2013), from the end of the century (Стевановић /Stevanović/ 1999, Михаиловић /Mihailović/ 2000, and finally from the beginning of this century (Думнић /Dumnić/ 2006, partly published in Думнић /Dumnić/ 2011. During these research processes, vocal, instrumental and dance forms, as well as ethnographic data about rituals and customs were collected.…”