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2. FOLKLOR - To the folklore of the area includes the entire work of people:
music,
dances,
speech (dialect)
songs
costumes
handicrafts.
REGION
When we talk about folklore, very often we use the term "region", which
means an area inhabited by a people whose culture, activities and the
way of life are different then in other neighboring areas.
In Poland we can distinguish the following regions:
Lubelskie
Kujawy
Podlasie
Mazowsze
Kashubia
Pomerania, it’s Pomorze
Wielopolska
Silesia, it’s Śląsk
Podhale

3.  Dances can be grouped by region, in which occurred:
SILESIA(ŚLĄSK) - lipka, koziorajka, old woman;
KUJAWY - kujawiak, walking
WIELKOPOLSKA - walking, waltz and primrose;
KASHUBIA - shepherd, shoemaker and „rus dwa”.
PODHALE - highland dancing
MAZOWSZE - Krakowiak, oberek, mazurek, polonaise
Pomerania - Kashubian dances
 In addition national dances, in Poland occurred another
dances, for example brickmaker or miotlarz. This dances
only imitated moves of real folk dances.

4. POLISH NATIONAL DANCES
These are dances that have spread
throughout the Polish. They have the
indyvidual characteristics of specific
regions.
1. Krakowiak
2. Polonaise
3. Mazurka
4. Oberek
5. Kujawiak

5.  Krakowiak, a Polish folk dance from the
region of Krakow, belongs to the natives
of the national Polish dance in 2 / 4 time
and a characteristic syncopated rhythm.
Name comes from the whole of the
eighteenth century, and now referring to a
group of dancing natives possess your
own local smokers names: passes,
tripping, chasing, skalmierzak, runs, etc.
At the end of the eighteenth century,
features syncopated rhythms were up
Krakowiak appeared in symphonic music,
and at the beginning of the nineteenth
century, this dance has become popular
now in the stage and instrumental music.


6. Originally called walking. Is a Polish dance
court, though its roots became from folk
music. Features: stoic, rather slow, stress
at the same time, metre 3 / 4.

7. One of the biggest Polish folk band named for Stanislaus Hadyna , found
July 1, 1953 by Stanislaw Hadyn. The seat assembly is housed in the Castle in Koszęcin.

8. Officially, the "Mazowsze" brought to life the Decree of the Ministry of Culture and Art on Nov. 8, 1948 the year of
introduction to Professor Tadeusz Sygietyńskiemu organize a folk band, whose task was to care for the traditional
repertoire of folk-based songs, and dances przyśpiewkach Masovian village and regional artistic traditions.

9. The group "Słowianki" was created in 1959 at the Department of Slavonic Philology at the Jagiellonian
University. The beginning gave a group of several students of the Faculty of Philology, organized by the
researcher, slavicist - Zdzislaw Wagner, fascinated by the folklore of southern Slavs.

10. History of Song and Dance Ensemble "Kurpie" dates back to 1952, when the instructor is the initiative of the
District House of Culture - Boguslaw Bakala Regional Team was established "Kurpie.

11. Mountaineer national Kurpian national costume
costume
Kashubian national costume
Warmian national costume
Kujawian national costume
Wielkopolska’s national costume
Śląsk Opolski national costume Krakowian national costume

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Culture and art - On the whole
province folk traditions are
celebrating. Center of the highest rank
is the regional capital Poznań. The
largest centers of folk culture are
Szamotuły, Krobia, Włoszakowice and
Wągrowiec.
FOLK MUSIC in Wielkopolska
For the characteristic and the oldest
known musical instruments include
bagpipes, which do not meet
in other regions of the country, except
in the region of Podhale and Zywiec .
FOLKLORE dance - the most common
are: cheers, fore, chilled, dance based
on different steps, as well as
ceremonial dances.
FROM DĄBRÓWKA
WIELKOPOLSKA
COSTUME
dudy SZAMOTULSKI DRESS

13. gęśle Dudy
 CULTURE AND ART. Highlander
folklore is one of the biggest
attractions of Zakopane and the whole
Highlands.
DRESS. Once the dress could be
identified, from which country the
person comes from. Shepherds
dressed differently (young shepherds
and shepherds), otherwise the hosts
(the farmers).
PODHALE
MUSIC: in many villages people could
meet a very talented folk musicians
who do not know the notes and
instruments performed
independently. Belonged to famous
artists Krzeptowski John Sabala and
Bartholomew Obrochta.
INSTRUMENTS - The Podhale once
played at the corners, pipes, bagpipes
(also known as the goat), trombitach,
gęślach (to play this instrument
made ​famous John Sabala).
With time Gesle replaced violin, bass
and bagpipes (the bass). PODHALAŃSKI NATIONAL
 COSTUME

14.  Krakowiak-largest group
of ethnographic in
Malopolska
DANCE - In
Galicia(Małopolska) we
mostly Krakowiak, and
transferred from Czech
polka.
MAŁOPOLSKA
People's musical
tradition is one way to
seek deeper ties or the
unity of the nation.
It is home to many rites
and customs.

Krakowian national
LAJKONIK costume

15. WARMIŃSKI COSTIUM E
HABITS - Since the new year in the
countryside went teams dressed, wearing a
mask goats, rams, bears.
On the last day of the year were decorated -
plugged chimneys, painted glass. In St.
John's girls threw wreaths on the water,
under the pillow lay wreaths of thyme - that
dreamed up future husband. Polish harvest
festival was the equivalent of Masurian
yield. On All Souls' Day were fed
grandfathers proszalnych under churches.
DANCE
Kosejdera ,frog, old man and walked were
dancing at weddings.
The main theme was folk and sly devil
woman with associated folk proverbs and
sayings such as "For a woman to hell",
"Where the devil can not go, send a woman
there. "
MAZURSKI
COSTIUME

16.  CULTURE - In connection with
Germanization in Lower Silesia (Sląsk)
,Lower Silesian folklore preserved very
exactly.
Costumes in the areas of Lower Silesia
were not uniform.
Barbara Bazielich singled out 8 groups
of clothes that have developed in the
late nineteenth century in the area
from the Glogau to Nysa: Jeleniogórski
costume, Kaczawsko - Nadbobrzański
costume, Karkonosze dress, Kłodzko
dress, Wałbrzych dress, Wrocław
costume, Głogowskie costumes
(separate group), Nysa dress.

DOLNY ŚLĄSK NATIONAL COSTIUME

17. ŚLĄSK
OPOLSKI
Kosorowiczanki -
national band

18. Culture of the Silesian
region is characterized
by diversity, which
result of mixing
different cultural
traditions
Śląsk national band

19. About MASOVIA mentioned as
early as the tenth century, in the
age structure of the Polish state.
This area lies in the vicinity of
Warsaw, and also Kurpie region
which is rich in folk art
The culture of Mazowsze
created thanks to the
penetration of many traditions.
The region was a melting pot,
MAZOWSZE
where they met representatives
of various visions and currents
and nationalities.
LEADING FIGURES.
The Mazowsze come prominent,
well-known and widely
respected were people such as:
St. Stanislaus Kostka, Felix KURPIOWSKI COSTIUME
Kryski, Nicholas and Lawrence
Gośliccy, Hippolytus Gawarecki
Vincent, Peter from
Proboszczowic whether John
Krasinski Dobrogost.
In Zelazowa Wola,
Chopin was born.

20. The relatively most numerous archaic
elements of indigenous folk culture of
West Pomerania, we find u Slovincians.
Under the name of the current
in the literature is understood as the
Slavic population of some rural district
between the rivers Łupawa Slupsk, and
Leba.
They seem to be Kashubian ethnic group.
Would qualify it for the many common
cultural elements.
COSTUMES - ​So important phenomenon
indicating diversity of ethnic groups as
well as regional costumes, were
in the nineteenth century in Western
Pomerania, the complete disappearance.
With incomplete descriptions, we know
only a few features of the old costume
Slovincians, nadłebskich Kashubians and
regional population. We do not know
quite the history of these garments and
factors, with the participation of which
they formed and turned into.
Kashubs MUSIC was accompanied not
only in the important moments in life, but
and at work, rest. Kashubs liked to have
fun, dance, sing. Their dances
and songs can be divided into several
groups: eg ritual
KASZUBSKI PYRZYCKI COSTIUME
COSTIUME

21. Kujawy area is very
rich culturally.
DANCE:
Kujawy – an area
belong to the central
Polish, which
dominated the
mazurek dancing
rhythms.
The group include
following dances:
kujawiak, mazurek
and oberek, all exist in
the Kujawy region. WALKING BY „KOZA”

22. Polish national dance in a lively
tempo and time signature 3 / 4.
Name of dance comes from the
region of Mazovia. This dance
combines similarity with zoberkek
(at a faster pace) and kujawiak
(slow). It is characterized by
tendency to accentuate the second
and third beats and the rhythmic
figure of a four-syllable group,
which is composed of two eights
and two quarter notes alternating
with a group of three quarter notes.
It is a fun dynamic dance often
danced on the noble courts. Male
lead in the mazurek is called
bellwether.

23.  Polish folk dance, popular in the countryside in many Polish regions, especially popular in
the Mazowsze and Radomszczyzna. In its natural context (fun, wedding) came to a halt in
the second half of the twentieth century, especially now danced at weddings only for the
elderly and at their request, provided that he has in his repertoire oberek wedding band,
which is rare (usually when it is Composed in 'oberek Wilanów).

24.  It is a quiet dance. It consists of quarter notes in the rhythm of running on a slightly
bent legs. Moody, lyrical melody gives it a flirtatious nature. Dance steps are based
mainly on a mild gait and speed, only the musical accents at the end of phrases are
highlighted by stronger steps. Basic steps in Kujawiak are equal, from bottom, top,
trójkrok chodzony (one bar performed three dance steps). Figures Kujawiak are asleep,
from up-to the (odsibka), leaning, and 4-way rotation.

25. gęśle
 In Poland, we meet many different folk instruments. The most popular,
occurring throughout the country, can include rattles, terkotki,
whistles, reed pipes.
In addition to these regional instruments have occurred. Here you can
replace the pipes, which, depending on the region could have a
different name - consisted of a bag of goatskin and two pipes,
one of which was called przebierką.
dudy terkotka
The Podhale shepherds played on trembitach - long trumpets,
with a length of up to 5 meters. With stringed instruments were the
most popular small violin - mazanki, oktawki, bass, seamen. In some
areas, also played the drums, bells, okarynach and clarinets.
folk music was performed mostly in groups by folk bands. Their
composition can vary from region to region, but generally consisted of
violins, bagpipes, clarinet and drum.
Among scholars of Polish folk music to the most outstanding are:
Joseph Ligęza, Jan Bystroń, Jadwiga and Marian Sobieskis,
Fr. Wladyslaw Skierkowski, and especially Oskar Kolberg. His life in the
years 1814-1890. For 50 years, traveled to Poland
and record folk songs in all variants, which are well know. He described
the life and folk customs. He is the author
24-volume work that the title "People and their customs, way of life,
speech, proverbs, customs, tastes, games, songs, music
and dance. "He also released a collection of songs specific to each
region's Polish.
TREMBIKI