Beginnings of the polish church chant and its themes
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Polish chant, liturgy, Latin hymnodia, kierleszAbstract
Polish church chant, monodic and designed for people is an important part of the great heritage of religious culture of the Polish Church. Its appearance was in the scientists research explained by many theories. It is commonly assumed that the most likely formed in the thirteenth century. The first analyzed theory derives it from so called kierlesz, phonetically transformed into a short formula Kyrie eleison, sung on various occasions. However, except for a few cases, you do not hear anything in Poland about kierlesz. Feicht – the opponent of kierlesz theory – preferred source of Polish song is the introduction of recitation in Polish prayers on Sundays and holiday, right after the reading of the gospel. However, these practices can be regarded as a preliminary stage that paves the way for Polish chants. The dominant theory is saying that the source of the song in Poland is Latin hymnodia, translated more or less accurately into Polish. The creation of Polish religious chant was primarily due to the demand of the faithful for religious rites, both beyond the liturgical, and in the liturgy itself. The first chants in Polish represented Easter chants, Passion chants and Marian chants.References
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