Folk Songs of the Belgorod Region in B.M. Shchurov’s Records and Publications

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Mikhail S. Zhirov
Nataliya S. Kuznetsova
Olga Ya. Zhirova

Abstract

The article presents in a systematic form information about the collecting activity of V.M. Shchurov, the outstanding scientist, propagandist of folk song art, that took place on the territory of the Belgorod region. The results of numerous expeditionary scientist’s researchers are reflected in scientific works, numerous publications of song collections. V.M. Shchurov’s name is associated with the discovery of a number of song traditions, including the villages Afanasyevka, Ilovka, Alekseevsky district, Bolshebykovo, Bolshoye, Shelayevo Krasnogvardeisky district, Foshchevatovo, Volokonovsky district, Belgorod region. The copies of the expedition materials, recorded by the professor make the most important part of the folklore archive of the scientific and creative laboratory “Folk Music of the South of Russia in the Modern Socio-Cultural Space” of the Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture. On the territory of the Belgorod region, scientists have recorded unique forms of polyphonic singing. It is with the most complex singing art of the performers of the Afanasyevka village that the innovative approach of multi-microphone voice fixation, applied by the researcher, is associated. Long years of creative cooperation of V.M. Shchurov with folk performers contributed to activating folk singing performance in the region as a whole and determined the main direction of the collecting activity of folklorists for decades.


Keywords: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Shchurov, South Russian song tradition, ethnographic expedition, folk singing masters, folk songs multi-microphone recording, folklore archive, scientific and creative heritage.

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Zhirov М. С. ., Kuznetsova Н. С. ., & Zhirova О. Я. . (2021). Folk Songs of the Belgorod Region in B.M. Shchurov’s Records and Publications. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 43(2), 166–172. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1277
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Concerning the Issue of Folklore
Author Biographies

Mikhail S. Zhirov, Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture, Belgorod, Russia

Mikhail S. Zhirov, Dr. Sci (Pedagogical), Professor at the Folk Singing Art Department, Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture

Nataliya S. Kuznetsova, Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture, Belgorod, Russia

Nataliya S. Kuznetsova, Ph.D. (Arts), Associate Professor at the Folk Singing Art Department, Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture

Olga Ya. Zhirova, Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture, Belgorod, Russia

Olga Ya. Zhirova, Ph.D. (Pedagogical), Professor at the Folk Singing Art Department, Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture