Polish folk music has many similarities to the folk music of other countries Slavic : Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. It also exhibits many analogies to the music of Western Europe, especially in Topics songs ballad, or in the composition of instrumental ensembles. Formed a folk music singers and instrumentalists amateur, playing in bands at weddings and other ceremonial situations and at parties or during grazing animals.

Vocal music Instrumental music

ritual songs: previously performed at major events in the life of the village: at weddings, harvest, etc. moral songs: love, flirty, soldiers chants: accompanying melodies dance ballad: sung often by grandfathers migratory devotional songs: sung at the shrines, the pilgrimages and other situations

forms of dance: dance spin (oberki, mazurki, polki), dance skating, dancing; pastoral tunes: dances for example ‘Owczarek’ Trumpet call: the advent trumpet call played on Ligawka (wind-instrument)

Mazurek - dance fast, rotary, carried out "smoothly" without jumping. Couples dancing, spinning the music and how to hold a closed. After a few minutes energetic spin couple changes direction and begins to turn left.

Polka - Polka different from the usual that using the same step, performed on the entire foot, participants give the dance characteristic "jumping". Pairs, as in the mazurka or oberku, rotate in a circle "under the sun" or "with the sun" and the dance direction is changed to call one of the dancers.

Oberek - certainly the most lively of the dances. Its name is derived from the rotation and suggests how it performs. Couple rotate in a circle, beating the space around them. In addition to the energetic rotation characteristic of this dance are also stamping and change partners during the dance.

In each region there are different configurations Polish folk bands. Configurations changed bands in history, depending on the transformation of tradition and new fashions for the instruments coming out of the city.

Mazovia Greater Silesia Podhale Silesian Beskids and Zywiec Beskids Kaszuba Rzeszów and Tarnów Lublin and Zamość

band with violin and harmony as a leading instrument. violin, bass, drum harmony, violin, Baraban violin, violin accompaniment, drum.

Bands Dudziarska bagpipes and violin bagpipes, clarinet (trumpet), bass.

brass bands clarinet, cornet, trumpet, French horn with the trombone or tuba.

bands with violin in redoubled cast violin, violin seconds Hungarian viola, bass 4-stringed, in older compositions ”z łó bcoki”

bands of bagpipes Gajda (bagpipe), violin violin, violin seconds heligonka (a ccordion), bass (contrabass)

bands with Maryna and burczybasem violin, clarinet, and bass seafarers, burczybas.

bands with cymbals dulcimer, fiddle, bass dulcimer, fiddle, violin seconds, bass clarinet, violin, violin seconds, bass (higher up)

bands with violin violin, violin seconds drum violin, violin seconds, flute, clarinet, bass

Karolina Cybulska Zuzanna Dobosz