Modal Archetypes in the Traditional Music of the Buryats

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Lidiya D. Dashieva

Abstract

The article examines for the first time the modal archetypes in the traditional music of the Buryats – narrow-ranged three- and four-pitch modal structures which have a crucial significance in the pitch organization of the song tradition. Applying the intonational-modal and structuraltypological methods of analysis, the author represents modal archetypes for the first in the context of the profound early folk music stratum of the ritual song tradition of the Western Buryats. The typical modal archetypes are examined in the examples of the drinking songs arhiin duunuud and the yokhoroy duunuud songs which accompany the Buryat yokhor round dance. The published information helps specify the monodical nature of the Buryats’ modal thinking and, in all possibility, the cognition of the specific features of traditional music thinking of the mythological variety. In the subsequent research of modal archetypes, it is necessary to continue studying the question of correlation of the universally combined and the specifically distinctive characteristic for the Buryat monodical culture.


Keywords: mode, modal archetypes, monody, the song tradition of the Buryats.

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Dashieva Л. Д. (2020). Modal Archetypes in the Traditional Music of the Buryats. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 41(4), 258–265. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1233
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Music Theory
Author Biography

Lidiya D. Dashieva, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ulan-Ude, Russia

Lidiya D. Dashieva, Dr.Sci. (Arts), Leading Researcher at the Center for Oriental Manuscripts and Woodcuts, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences