Problems of ethnomusicology № 21
2025
S U M M A R Y
Belogurova Larisa
Russian wedding songs of the typological family «Vyun» in a macro-geographical perspective
This article examines wedding songs of two rhythmic types, known in many Russian regions and belonging to a single typological family of musical-rhythmic forms. The work is aimed at studying their geographical characteristics: the areas of distribution and the internal structure of the areas are established, the resulting area picture is interpreted in a historical way. The article is illustrated with maps showing the localization of the song system’s components.
Shishkina Elena
Russian wedding traditions of the lover Volga region in the light of areal research
The article presents the local wedding traditions of the Astrakhan Volga region. The main body of wedding songs, assigned to certain ritual stages and actions, their functional groups, rhythmic structures of melodies and their versions are installed in each of the two zones. All this determines the specifics of the ritual and its musical design in the designated areas.
Reznichenko Evgeniya
About the geography of melodies of wedding lamentations of Pomorien, Karelian and Kandalaksha shores of the White sea
The article reflects the experience of an areal study of the wedding lamentations on the Western coast of the White Sea. As the geographical projection of various parameters has shown, with a variety of structural types of melodies, this regional tradition has a certain integrity. It can be described through a system of relevant features, some of which determine its internal areal structure, others relate to the basic ones for the region as a whole.
Veremeenko Daria
Round dance songs of the Pinega region: rhythmic forms and their geography
The article offers a geographical study of the round dance tradition established in the basin of the Pinega River (Arkhangelsk region). The results of studying the rhythmic organization of round dances and the territorial fixation of their musical and rhythmic forms are presented.The areal structure of the tradition is revealed, which is confirmed by the spread of choreographic forms and poetic plots.
Yakubovskaya Elena
Melogeography of Pinega song lyrics (based on recordings by E.V.Gippius and Z.V. Ewald in 1927)
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of Pinezh lyrical songs recorded by an expedition of the State Institute of Art History in 1927. The versions of the song “Sad Company”, one of the most common songs recorded in three different zones of the Pinega basin, have been studied. The rhythmic, melodic, and polyphonic characteristics of their tunes bear the striking features of local singing schools, reflecting the local characteristics of the song centers of the tradition.
Kalyuzhnaya Varvara
The wedding of Kaluga Gamayun region in the works of M.E. Sheremeteva
The subject of the article is related to the wedding ritual of one of the local traditions in the upper part of the Oka basin.Gamayun region is the nearest suburb of Kaluga, which was explored by ethnographer M. E. Sheremeteva at the beginning of the 20th century. She managed to collect, summarize and publish extensive ethnographic and musical material, which in this article is interpreted in the light of modern scientific data.
Vlasova Svetlana
The round dance tradition of the Nekrasov cossacks
The article is devoted to the round dances of the Nekrasov Cossacks, who live in the Levokumsky district of the Stavropol region. The “karagod” and “wing” songs of this ethnographic group became the object of special research for the first time. They are considered systematically, in the context of a ritual complex based on musical and choreographic folklore forms.
Gordienko Oleg
About the features of the boardwalk shepherd`s drum in the southeastern regions of the Ivanovo region
The article examines the results of field studies of the shepherd’s drum in 1989 and 1991 in the south-east of the Ivanovo region. The western boundary of its range has been established in the local tradition, new folk names of the instrument and its components have been identified, and information about its design and playing techniques has been collected. The author identifies the typological features of local shepherd’s drum samples.