2.
Supetarska Draga, the island of Rab
Performing
Kacic's and other's heroic poems as a part of the wedding customs was
characteristic for many places, and it is still today preserved in
Supetarska Draga on the island of Rab. Male singers from Supetarska
Draga perform pivanje po starinsku ("singing in the
old fashioned way") or pivanje po musku (male singing) especially
at the wedding ceremonies. The typical decasyllabic wedding epic song is
Zenidba Sibinjanina Janka (The marriage of Sibinj' Janko) [7].
Singers start performing a part of the song at the most intense and
celebratory moment - the taking of the bride. Singing of parts of the
song continues through the whole wedding ceremony (Bagur 2004:42). The
male singing group from Supetarska Draga performs in non-tempered
intervals with a distinctive manner of ornamentation and decoration of
melodic line, which matches the traditional singing in the regions of
Istria and Quarnero islands. In the same time, singing techniques are
typical for the mountainous Croatian area from where the inhabitants of
Supetarska Draga possibly migrated. Strong vibrato or shaking of the
voice (ojkanje) is typical singing manner of the mountainous
areas and stock-raising culture. It is characterized by performing
longer or shorter melisma, with the sharp and prolonged shaking voice on
the syllables "oj", "voj", "ej", or "aj" (Marosevic 2000:414)
[8].
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