Traditions of Bashkir Sesen and intensive course of kurai learning

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Azat M. Aitkulov

Abstract

The art of ancient sesens – Bashkir singers, poets and storytellers – is the most ancient type of folk artistic (musical and poetic) creative work. At the same time it was a form of the national educational and upbringing tradition. Practical reproduction of the artistic communication principles of the sesens is relevant in the context of folk art tradition extinction in the modern forms of cultural life framework. The method of intensive training to play the kurai, described in the informational report, is aimed at training not professional artists – masters of stage performance on a folk instrument, but performers who live directly in the folk environment. The general idea and methodology of the author՚s course are inspired by the tradition of Bashkir sesens and imply collective training. It proceeds in short terms and involves a considerable quantity of young national musicians. Informative significance of the report is connected with popularizing pedagogical innovation, bearing in its methodical part not only technology of pedagogical work, but also important ethical and educational component.


Keywords: Bashkir sesens, kurai, national instruments, musical education, intensive training.

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Aitkulov А. М. (2022). Traditions of Bashkir Sesen and intensive course of kurai learning. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 47(2), 157–162. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1367
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Musical Cultures of Russia
Author Biography

Azat M. Aitkulov, Ufa State Zagir Ismagilov Institute of Arts, Ufa, Russia

Associate Professor at the Traditional Musical Performance and Ethnomusicology Department, Dean of the Bashkir Music Faculty, Ufa State Institute of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov