"Kongurai" an Essay in Intonatsia Analysis

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Ayasmaa D.-B. Mongush

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the Tuva folk song
"Kongurai", using the intonatsia analytical method. This method
is applied to a Tuva folk song for the first time in history.
The author supports her analysis on the achievements of the
Russian and Soviet researches of monodic modes and anhemitonic
in particular. The author subscribes under the concept
of heterogeneous compound character of modes since this concept
has been tested on the examples from a number of traditional
musical cultures. With all that, the author suggests her
own view of the questions set forth in this analysis. As a
result, the author reveals the essential features of modal and
formal structure of Tuva folk songs which are also applicable
to other genres of musical folklore of Tuva.

Keywords: ethnomusicology, monadic culture, Tuva folklore, folk-song poetics

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How to Cite
Mongush, A. D.-B. (2008). "Kongurai" an Essay in Intonatsia Analysis. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 3(2), 57–60. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/721
Section
Musical Cultures of Russia
Author Biography

Ayasmaa D.-B. Mongush, Tuvan Humanities Research Institute

Scientific assistant at the Division of Culture