Dumka (musical form)

Dumka (musical form)

Dumka ( _ua. думка, plural: Dumky думки) (a diminutive form of the noun duma) is a musical term introduced from the Ukrainian language, with cognates in other Slavic languages. Originally, it is the diminutive form of the Ukrainian term dumy "a Slavic (specifically Ukrainian) epic ballad … generally thoughtful or melancholic in character." Randel: "Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music", p. 148. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978] Ukrainian and other Slavic classical composers drew on the harmonic patterns in the folk music of their countries to inform their more formal classical compositions. The composition of dumky became popular after the publication of an ethnological study and analysis and a number of illustrated lectures were made by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko in 1873 and 1874 in Kyiv and Saint Petersburg. Lysenko's study was the first to specifically study the melodies and accompaniment of the epic dumy performed by the blind kobzar Ostap Veresai.

A natural part of the process of transferring the traditional folk form to a formal classical milieu was the appropriation of the Dumka form by Slavic composers, most especially by Antonín Dvořák. Thus, in classical music, it came to mean "a type of instrumental music involving sudden changes from melancholy to exuberance." Though generally characterized by a gently plodding, dreamy duple rhythm, many examples are in triple meter, including the popular Op. 72 No. 2 by Dvořák. Dvořák's last and best-known piano trio, No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, has six movements, each of which is a Dumka; the piece is sometimes called the "Dumky-Trio". [ [http://www.fuguemasters.com/dvorak.html Antonin Dvorak ] ]

Examples

Major examples in the classical repertoire include:

Antonín Dvořák

*"Furiant with Dumka", Op. 12 (1884) for piano solo
*"Dumka" (Elegy), Op. 35 (1876) for piano solo
*Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 and 72, (Three of the sixteen)
*Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53, mvt. 3 - though based on a Furiant, the middle part is a Dumka
*String Sextet in A, Op. 48 (1878), mvt. 2: "Dumka: Poco allegretto"
*Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 (1887), mvt. 2: "Dumka: Andante con moto"
*Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 (1891) — the "Dumky-Trio"
*String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 51 - B. 92: II. Dumka. Andante Con Moto

Leoš Janáček

*"Dumka" for violin & piano

Bohuslav Martinů [ [http://www.martinu.cz/katalog/ Katalog skladeb Bohuslava Martinů ] ]

*"Dumka" (unnumbered), H. 4 (1909 - Polička, Czechoslovakia), for solo piano
*"Dumka No. 1", H. 249 (1936 - Paris, France), for solo piano
*"Dumka No. 2", H. 250 (1936 - Paris, France), for solo piano
*"Dumka No. 3", H. 285bis (1941 - Jamaica, NY, USA), for solo piano


=Pyotr Tchaikovsky=

*"Dumka", Op. 59 (Scenes from a Russian village) for solo piano (1886)

Others

*M. Balakirev, Dumka in E flat major (1900)
*Vasyl Barvinsky, Dumka (1925)
*Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky, Dumka and kolomiyka from the opera "Sojchyne krylo"
*Mykola Lysenko, 2nd piano rhapsody (1877)
*Moniuszko, Jontek's aria from the opera "Halka"
*Modest Mussorgsky, Paraska's aria from the opera "Sorochynsky fair"
*M. Shneider-Trnavsky, Dumka and dance for symphony orchestra (1909)
*M. Zawadsky, 12 dumky and 42 shumky
*V. Zaremba
*S. Zaremba

Notes

Sources

* S. I. Gritsa (Hrytsa) Dumi vidayushcheyesya dostoyaniye ukrainskoy kulturi (Dumy a remarkable product of Ukrainian culture) Musica anticqua Europae orientalis II Bydgosz, 1969.(In Russian)
* M. Antonowych Dumka and Duma in MGG


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