"The variabilities of a specific Gorj county song. Comparative analysis of two versions"

Author(s):  
Marius-Ionuț STANCIU ◽  

Traditional music is characterized by: oral transmission, collective specificity, syncretic substrate, anonymous source, etc. These elements generate another phenomenon specific to this music, namely: the transformations that a traditional song can undergo when it leaves an area, a region even a performer and is “replanted” in another area / region or it is reinterpreted by another person. This scientific study monitors this transformation through the comparative analysis of a song from the Oltenia region, Gorj County, sung by two of the most famous voices of traditional music and folklore in Romania: Maria Lătărețu and Maria Tănase. Following the analysis, conclusions are specified, regarding the differences in the underlying structure, melodic structure, rhythmic structure, etc

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.A. Chernyavsky

Статья посвящена актуальной проблеме взаимодействия музыкальных культур в многонациональных регионах юга России. Автор рассматривает особенности традиционной музыки Ростовской области, Ставрополья, Астрахани, Кубани, Карачаево-Черкеcии, Адыгеи и подчёркивает, что её органичное вхождение в академическое искусство происходило в специализированных учебных заведениях музыкальных училищах и музыкальных педагогических институтах. Привлекавшиеся для работы в них педагоги, переплавляя в единое художественное целое местный фольклор и традиции академической музыки, создавали благоприятные условия для формирования нового поколения музыкантов, в произведениях которых находит свое подлинное воплощение диалог культур. Этот опыт, приходит к выводу автор, может быть взят на вооружение современной системой музыкального образования, в связи с чем изучение вопроса не должно прекращаться.The article is devoted to the urgent problem of the interaction of musical cultures in the multinational regions of Southern Russia. In the context of the growing globalization, the search for ideas that can become the basis for intercultural dialogue is becoming relevant. In these conditions, music can be considered as the clearest example of a powerful resource for creating and strengthening the space of interethnic interaction. Russian musical heritage is enormous in its characteristics, distinguished by the wealth of national schools. This heritage is a unique laboratory in which distinctive cultures constantly experience mutual influence thus enriching each other. The author notes that Russian composers constantly turned to Oriental themes not only reflecting the corresponding musical specifics, but also creating a new image of the East in the eyes of their compatriots, acting as artists carrying Russian culture. Currently, this tradition continues, which is shown by an example of the musical culture of the South of Russia, whose development reflects the constant interaction of academic music and folklore. The culture of dialogue, which made the integration of traditional music and academic art possible, originated in specialized educational institutions. The first of these institutions was the Music and Pedagogical Institute (later Rostov State Rakhmaninov Conservatoire), which trained composers whose works expressed all musical forms and genres. The joint work of teachers and students in the early 1970s positively reflected in the work of the Ensemble of Don Cossacks. The founding of Astrakhan State Conservatory (1969) became an important link in the formation of the space for cultural interaction between the peoples of the region (Kalmyks, Volga Germans, Kazakhs, Volga Tatars, etc.). Of great importance for the work of local composers were folklore works recorded on tape during ethnographic expeditions and then decrypted in the form of musical notation. Of considerable importance was the activity of graduates of Astrakhan Conservatory in the neighboring Kalmykia. According to composers and musicologists, the traditional music of the Kalmyk people is notable for its significant originality. One example of cultural interaction in the musical sphere is the Kalmyk dance melody Chichirdyk, which appeared in one of the villages populated by Kalmyks and Ukrainians. In Stavropol Krai, the opening of Stavropol School of Music in 1903 had a positive impact on the local traditional song and dance culture. The musical tradition of this region began to form during the period of active development of the region by the East Slavic population since the end of the 18th century. Krasnodar Krai is the center that has been attracting many ethnic groups, each of which brought its own unique shade to the local musical palette. The carriers of ethnic cultures that actively influenced the formation of the musical picture of the region were the Adyghe, Black Sea Cossacks, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and many other peoples. Currently, the Krasnodar Branch of the Union of Composers of Russia includes professionals who are fluent in various genres of music and embody the ideas of dialogue of cultures in the form of musical works.


Author(s):  
Mary-Ann Constantine ◽  
Gerald Porter

This book is about traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, publications) overwhelmingly suggest that apparently ‘broken’ and drastically shortened versions of songs are not perceived as incomplete by those who sing them. This study turns the focus on these ‘dog-ends’ of oral tradition, and looks closely at how very short texts convey meaning in performance by working the audience's knowledge of a highly allusive idiom. What emerges is the tenacity of meaning in the connotative and metaphorical language of traditional song, and the extraordinary adaptability of songs in different cultural contexts. Such pieces have a strong metonymic force: they should not be seen as residual ‘last leaves’ of a once complete tradition, but as dynamic elements in the process of oral transmission. Not all song fragments remain in their natural environment, and this book also explores relocations and dislocations as songs are adapted to new contexts: a ballad of love and death is used to count pins in lace-making, song-snippets trail subversive meanings in the novels of Charles Dickens. Because they are variable and elusive to dating, songs have had little attention from the literary establishment: the authors of this book show both how certain critical approaches can be fruitfully applied to song texts, and how concepts from studies in oral traditions prefigure aspects of contemporary critical theory. Coverage includes English, Welsh, Breton, American, and Finnish songs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (42) ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Mahmood Mosleh Mohammed ◽  

Установление системного характера лексики, ее взаимосвязи с другими языковыми системами, их взаимозависимость создают возможность всестороннего научного изучения и описания лексической системы каждого языка, а также контрастивно-сопоставительного изучения нескольких языков, в том числе их фразеологического состава. Известно, что не все слова-компоненты фразеологизмов равнозначны по своей роли в формировании семантического содержания фразеологизмов. В связи с этим необходимо ввести понятие лексической доминанты. К ним мы относим слова, являющиеся своеобразными центрами, вокруг которых формируется весь семантический комплекс фразеологизмов, весь набор его слов-компонентов. Abstract Establishing the systemic character of vocabulary, its relationship with other language systems, their interdependence creates the possibility of a comprehensive scientific study and description of the lexical system of each language, as well as contrastive comparative studies of several languages, including their phraseological composition. It is known that not all words-components of phraseological units are equivalent in their role in the formation of the semantic content of phraseological units. In this regard, it is necessary to introduce the concept of a lexical dominant. To this we include words, which are kind of centers around which the entire semantic complex of phraseological units, the entire set of its words-components are formed


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
T. N. Suzanskaya

The article discusses artistic features of the lyrical poems by A. Bely and G. Bacovia. The author also traces the features of symbolist poetics characteristic of both lyricists – the outstanding representatives of Russian and Romanian symbolism. The author compares the poems “The flying forest sings...” by A. Bely and “Pastel” by G. Bacovia, dedicated to the parting of lyrical characters, to love that is going away. These works reveal the main levels of artistic unity: image system, space-time continuum, lyrical situation, features of poetics and melody. An attempt has been made to translate the poem “Pastel” by G. Bacovia into the Russian language. The relevance of the research is determined by the lack of works devoted to the comparative analysis of Russian and Romanian symbolism, in particular, the lyrics of Andrei Bely and George Bacovia. The creativity of these poets finds its origins in French symbolism and at the same time has a bright individual character. The purpose of the article is to reveal the artistic originality of the worldview of two outstanding representatives of European symbolism, to trace the specific features of covering the theme of love in their works, taking the comparative analysis of A. Bely’s poem “The flying forest sings” and G. Bacovia’s poem “Pastel” as an example. The comparative analysis is the main method of research, it allowed to make a conclusion about the dramatic but bright nature of love in A. Bely’s poem and its pessimistic embodiment in G. Bacovia’s poem. Some conclusions are drawn about the similarities and differences in the image of the lyrical situation, the system of images, the space-time plan, colour values, composition, the ideological content, as well as the melody, rhythmic structure and meter.


2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER MERCER-TAYLOR

AbstractFolksinger-songwriter Bill Staines came of age at the height of the mid-twentieth-century American folk music revival and has spent the years since then writing and playing music that seems impelled by the conviction that this vanished era's core stylistic premises and clear-eyed optimism remain as alive and available as they were at the revival's peak. Through this exploration of his 1984 album Bridges, I seek to show that Staines accomplishes this fantasy of the revival's continued vitality not, as his commentators frequently suggest, by clinging fast to decades-old stylistic practices but by introducing a dimension of reflexivity into his craft. What comes to matter is not music's political or social meaning but the self-conscious celebration of the idea of music having such a meaning.The article's first section explores Staines's self-mythologizing enfolding of his own persona into Woody Guthrie's in the Guthrie ballad that opens the album. The second section examines Bridges' poetic weaving of music into narratives of social redemption and personal self-actualization. The third section examines Bridges' many moments of diegetic song, which effectively collapse the worlds of Staines's poetic subjects into that of his immediate audience. The last section explores how melodic choices in the traditional song that closes the album have the effect of bringing many of the songs that precede it directly into the fold of traditional music.


2019 ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Tatiana N. Chugaeva ◽  
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Olga V. Baiburova ◽  
Anton A. Vakhotin ◽  
Svetlana Y. Dmitrieva ◽  
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Corpus research presents obvious benefits, though linguists approach the material in various ways. For example, corpus linguists approach data in an exploratory way, whereas psycholinguists more often tend to combine corpus data and experimental research. The current work uses the theoretical systemic approach to describe the two frequency strata of the three corpora (Russian National Corpus, British National Corpus and Open American National Corpus) and build the classification of phonetic word types in Russian and English (British and American). The aim of the research is to draw up the phonetic (perceptive) classification of the corresponding languages and to describe the identity of their sound systems based on these types. The high frequency and the frequency strata of the three corpora have been analyzed to identify the words characterized by the following linguistic features: length in syllables, stressed vowel, rhythmic structure, etc. The data comparison discovered more distinctions than similarities among the three corpora...


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