DOI: 10.36871/hon.202003022
Authors
N. A. Ursegova
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Abstract
The traditional wedding song of the Russian population living on the territory of mining villages
in the Beloretsk district of the Republic of Bashkortostan still remains little studied area
of knowledge from the ethnomusicological point of view, and for the first time becomes an object of special research. Analytical base of the article are the expeditionary records made by
students and teachers of philological faculty of the Magnitogorsk State University in XNUMX–
XNUMX under the guidance of the candidate of philological sciences T. I. Rozhkova. The author
of the article carried out the editing of song samples.
The complex approach used in the article in the analysis of ritual texts, taking into account
the results of philological, ethnographic and musicological classifications, allows to
systematize the repertoire of the Beloretsk wedding, to distinguish two musical and stylistic
groups — song-and-lament and song-and-dance groups. Each musical and stylistic group
combines a part of the wedding repertoire, which is characterized by a certain set of typical
features reflecting the specifics of the form, genre, and content of songs in their direct relationship
with the condition and place of performance in the rite. The analysis of musical and
stylistic originality of Russian wedding songs and lamentations is conducted at the level of
verbal, syllabic, and pitch parameters of chants organization. The found regularities allow to
draw a conclusion about the musical and stylistic unity of local ritual and non-ritual folklore
genres, providing not only the preservation of the corpus of wedding songs and wedding
rites, but also the vitality of the local singing tradition as a whole.
Keywords
Russian wedding, musical folklore, complex approach, musical and stylistic group, tradition, song, lamentation
