TYPOLOGY OF TUNES OF THE YAKUT CEREMONIAL GENRE ALGYS
The article examines the typology of the tunes of the Yakut ritual algyses. Their ritual and meaningful components are revealed, which repre- sent a prayer addressed to the deities with the performance of certain ritual actions in the form of feeding the hearth with kumis. Three methods of intona- t...
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.34660/inf.2020.60.50.001 http://naukarus.ru/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2020/PMSD July 22 - Part 2.pdf#page=99 |
| Summary: | The article examines the typology of the tunes of the Yakut ritual algyses. Their ritual and meaningful components are revealed, which repre- sent a prayer addressed to the deities with the performance of certain ritual actions in the form of feeding the hearth with kumis. Three methods of intona- tion were found in the Yakut algys: speech realization, recitative performance and singing in the style of d’ieretii yrya. The features of the Yakut singing algys are determined: the beginning of the d'e buo; chants, including extended, vocalized; narrow-volume pendulum melody; specific timbre of kylysakh; mu- sical tirade form. For the first time the musical notation of algyses was made by the first Yakut composer and musicologist M.N. Zhirkov during the Vilyui expedition of 1943, which was recorded from the outstanding folk singer of Yakutia S.A.Zverev-Kyyl Uola. Typologically, the tunes of the Yakut algys are close to the Evenk lullabies algavke and the epic alga. Common to them are the names consonant with the Yakut genre and content. They are also ritual genres. Their musical part is characterized by a monody nature, improvisa- tion, an opening, a pendulum melody, syllable chants and timbre decorations in the form of grace notes and trills. The differences are primarily related to language. Musically, the Evenks' chants are short, unvoiced. Falsetto over- tones and tremolo characteristic of the Yakut kylysakhs are absent in the timbre decorations of the songs. The chants of the epic alga are expressed by the phrase Ugele-ugele-ugender, in contrast to the Yakut d'e buo. The same typologically common moments and differences can be observed in the ritual tunes of the Evens of Yakutia and the Buryats. In these genres, singing plays the same important role as their verbal part. |
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