Concerning the Issue of Studying the Specific Features of Intonating in the Finnish-Ugric Monody of the Improvisational Kind

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Svetlana V. Kosyreva

Abstract

The article is devoted to the topical subject of cognitive ethnomusicology – the issue of researching specific features of intonating in the monodic musical traditions of the Finnish-Ugric peoples. Attention is focused on traditional musical improvisations which present a broad domain in the traditions of various ethnic groups in their diversity of types and varieties. The present subject is elucidated by examples of traditional improvisations of the Baltic-Finnish groups in a comparative aspect, bringing in materials and data of researchers from Russia and other countries obtained from musical examples pertaining to various cultures. The monodic
stratum of traditional musical improvisations, their communicative function and nature of sound generation are actualized in the context of the traditions’ ideal of sound and are examined in the context of the interaction between the vocal and instrumental elements in ethnic musical cultures.


Keywords: cognitive ethnomusicology, ethnic music, musical Finnish-Ugric studies, monodic musical thinking, traditional improvisations, vocal/phonic imitations.

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Kosyreva С. В. . (2020). Concerning the Issue of Studying the Specific Features of Intonating in the Finnish-Ugric Monody of the Improvisational Kind. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 41(4), 33–49. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1213
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Musical Cultures of Russia
Author Biography

Svetlana V. Kosyreva, Petrozavodsk State A. K. Glazunov Conservatory, Petrozavodsk, Russia

Svetlana V. Kosyreva, Ph.D. (Arts), Associate Professor at the Music of the Finno-Ugric Peoples Department, Petrozavodsk State A. K. Glazunov Conservatory