A short note from the history of traditional music of the Serbs in Vojvodina: To mark two hundred years of the first recorded wedding song

Abstract

The well-known wedding song 'Odbi se grana od jorgovana' dates back to 1815 when it was recorded by Franciszek Mirecki. It was sung to him by a woman who was Vuk Stefanovic Karadžic's informant (Devic, 1991: 129). Specific in its character and melodic pattern, the wedding song held an important position in the wedding ceremony of native Serbs in the region of present-day Vojvodina. In the year of 2015 it had been exactly two hundred years since it was first notated.