About the Verbalizing Patterns of an Assonant Text in the Solo vs. Group Singing of the Peoples from the Caucasus

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Beslan G. Ashkhotov

Abstract

The questions of identification of the traditional musical culture of closely related ethnic formations in a regional angle of Russian folklore studies have acquired relevant meaning in recent times. Their examination makes it possible to establish the character of integration of a cross- cultural phenomenon in a separately viewed folkloristic areal. The present article illuminates the model of movable bourdon polyphony of the general Caucasus variety and the role of the typological assonant text taking up a parity position equal to verbal speech. The attempt of reconstruction of etymology of such a text and the discovery of patterns of verbalization in it permits the disclosure of additional functions of the bourdon strata of the songs’ texture in the context of figurative- emotional and structural content.


Keyword: Caucasus cultural areal, regional culture, polyphony, solo-group singing, movable bourdon, assonant text, verbalization.

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Ashkhotov Б. Г. (2020). About the Verbalizing Patterns of an Assonant Text in the Solo vs. Group Singing of the Peoples from the Caucasus. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 39(2), 98–106. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1177
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Musical Cultures of Russia
Author Biography

Beslan G. Ashkhotov, Northern-Caucasus State Institute of Arts, Nalchik, Russia

Доктор искусствоведения, профессор кафедры истории и теории музыки

Beslan G. Ashkhotov, Dr.Sci. (Arts), Professor at the Music History and Theory Department, Northern-Caucasus State Institute of Arts