Article

Name: On the saryn genre in the shaman repertoire of T.S. Burnakova

Authors: Sychenko Galina Borisovna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of folklore

Abstract: The paper analyses the composition and poetical features of shaman song folklore. The analysis is based on the author’s field recordings of shaman songs performed by one of the last ritual specialists among the Khakasses-Sagays. The author focuses his attention on the genres of shaman folklore defined by the performer as a saryn ‘song’. Study is made of the correlation between the verbal and musical structures of the texts; a comparison is drawn between shaman and traditional songs. Features of different genres are brought to light. The research is executed in the frame of complex methodology.

Keywords: genres of the shaman repertoire of the khakasses-sagays, complex philologo-musicological approach

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