Allegory of the Dumka (Galician folk song)

Winged female allegory with twilight in her hands, singing, lines of notes at the bottom. Head bar for the chapter “Music and folk music” in Galicia. The Dumka is a genus of folk songs that are often sung in the Slavic region accompanied by the Bandura and Kobsa. Some of them are very old and preferably contain the fighting of the Cossacks with the Turks and Tatars or scenes from family life. The term goes back to the Ukrainian word dumka, a diminishing form of the word duma (house). During the nineteenth century, composers from other Slavic countries began using the duma as a classic form for introverted, intrinsically sunken compositions (with few cheerful sections). (see Wikipedia Dumka) Oil painting on wood by Piotr Stachiewicz, signed. Preliminary drawing for the “Kronprinzenwerk” (The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture, Vienna 1886-1902), vol. “Galicia,” 1898, p. 539