Abstract
Since the end of the 19th century, the violin has become one of the most wide- spread instruments in traditional culture of Polish countryside. Violinists were of- ten the spiritus movens of the musical life of their villages, their musical activity accompanied rural communities in the most crucial moments of social and family life. Despite ethnomusicological research carried out actively in Poland since the 1950s focused on documenting and reconstructing the traditional music life of the Polish countryside, little has been written so far about the theoretical and aesthetic thinking of Polish traditional violinists. The objective of the article is to look into the thought processes developed by violinists active in the Polish countryside before and after The Second World War. The article attempts to show ways of understanding musical phenomena and creating terminology by violinists. The conclusions are based on field research conducted by me in 2020–2021 in Central Poland and on the literature on the subject.
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