Guda

GUDA performers practice "galasny speu" ("vocal singing", the term by ethnic musicologist Mrs. Z. Mazhejka) which has roots in loud singing en plein air. Basic aesthetic criterion in performing is the ability to "lead out loud" (prolonged singing with deep breath) and "raise up" the song (singing with sonorous thorax lining). Plurality of sounds is characteristic to vocal singing, these sounds are linked in an organic way into melodic line of the tune (glides in ascents and descents