Bashkir Musical Folklore as a Source of Forming National Opera Style

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Gulnaz S. Galina

Abstract

The article analyzes the recitative and vocal genres of Bashkir folk music, which served as a musical and intonational basis for creating national opera melodic corresponding to vocal speech various types. It is stated that the stylistic varieties classification in Bashkir folklore coincides with the general musicological genre typology. The article examines the recitative and cantilenic-ornamental styles, which have become the basis of various types of recitatives and operatic vocal forms. At the same time, more special attention is paid to the genres of Bashkir folk weddings and epic as being complex components, their influence on the plot, composition, intonation and musical system.
The section of the article about the ozon-kui genre contains valuable information about the melodic types of songs that have developed in folklore practice. The article emphasizes the folk songs about Salavat Yulaev influence on forming heroic stylistics, but the songs about the Patriotic War of 1812 on the type of building musical logic in the academic art. As a result, the folklore origins of Bashkir opera are revealed, the preconditions for the national style birth are based. In conclusion the article considers the criteria for evaluating the performance skills of singers that have developed in the folk environment and have passed into the sphere of academic art and the specifics of the language itself.


Keywords: Bashkir national opera, Bashkir folk music, hamak-kui, ozon-kui, ritual benevolence – a calf, the bride՚s lamentation – senlyau, spiritual verses of munazhat.

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How to Cite
Galina Г. С. (2023). Bashkir Musical Folklore as a Source of Forming National Opera Style. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 53(4), 135–147. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1483
Section
Issues in Ethnomusicology
Author Biography

Gulnaz S. Galina, Ufa State Zagir Ismagilov Institute of Arts, Ufa, Russia

DrSci (Arts), Associate Professor at the Ethnomusicology Department