Статья посвящена рассмотрению основных подходов к изучению музыки в шаманизме, сложившихся и функ... more Статья посвящена рассмотрению основных подходов к изучению музыки в шаманизме, сложившихся и функционирующих в современной антропологии и музыковедении. Автор характеризует различные направления в каждом из них, приводя в качестве примеров и анализируя наиболее показательные труды. Литература (источники и исследования) подобрана таким образом, чтобы позволить читателю самостоятельно расширить библиографический список. Изложение следует хронологическому порядку и отражает логику развития научного знания в избранной области. Два наиболее ранних подхода - музыкально-этнографический и музыкально-теоретический - продолжают сохраняться и развиваться до сих пор. Относительно недавно на их основе начал формироваться комплексно-текстологический подход. Все они ориентированы на изучение самой музыки в этнографическом контексте (тексториентированные подходы). Позже появляются многочисленные труды музыкально-антропологического и культурологического направлений, довольно подробно исследующие кон...
The paper is devoted to a definition of the shamanic text category, which is, in the author's... more The paper is devoted to a definition of the shamanic text category, which is, in the author's opinion, one of the key components of the "intonation texf' dichotomy, relevant for shamanic cultures. The aim of the work is to define the specificity of shamanic text, to reveal its essential features and then to interpret them. The scientific importance of work lies in theoretical clearing-up the specified category. The practical value is in its use for interpretation of complex and obscure ritual texts. Any element of such text can express a large number of information containing beyond its limits which is displayed only if needed. It allows us to explain the seeming incoherent character, closeness and opacity of the contents of shaman texts. The text is stipulated by the ceremony course, nature of ceremonial communication and a psychophysical condition of the expert who is carrying out the ritual (a so-called shaman trance or ecstasy). This determines its saturation by ele...
The article focuses on the song tradition of the Chalkans – a small Turkic-speaking population li... more The article focuses on the song tradition of the Chalkans – a small Turkic-speaking population living in a taiga zone of southern Siberia. The main objectives are: analysis of archival collections; comparison of the results of this analysis with historical data; and possible reconstruction of the historical process of the spreading of melodies in the area.The introduction examines different concepts of transhumance as applied to cultural artefacts. This concept is then discussed with regard to the Chalkan culture. Natural, social, economic and historical contexts are briefly described prior to the analysis of Chalkan songs. After discussing materials and methodology, historical strata of the song tradition are described, and the category of lyric songs with modal tunes is examined in greater detail. A general description is provided of its grammar as well as the conceptualisation of the songs, followed by analysis of the distribution of two main versions of tunes (3H- or “major” and...
The author introduces and examines in detail a dichotomic correlative pair Intonating – Text, whi... more The author introduces and examines in detail a dichotomic correlative pair Intonating – Text, which is relevant for the considerable number of the oral traditions. Shamanic tradition being a subject of the author’s research is an impressive example of such relevance. The author suggests the comparison between the given dichotomy and the similar one, namely, “Speech – Text” in language. The definition of each of the members of the dichotomy in respect to the shamanic tradition is also proposed. “Shamanic intonating” is comprehended as sound ritual and pararitual activity of the shaman and shamanists; “shamanic text” is interpreted as a holistic syncretic verbal-musical composition resulting of shamanic intonating. The author compares the dichotomy with a triad “Sound – Sounding – Music”. Keywords : Shamanic text, oral tradition
The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal a... more The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal and musical structures. The author, first, represents the shamanic family-clanic tradition of the Chalkans (small Turkic speaking group from Altai), secondly, describes the methodology used, and, thirdly, represents the results of this research.
The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal a... more The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal and musical structures. The author, first, represents the shamanic family-clanic tradition of the Chalkans (small Turkic speaking group from Altai), secondly, describes the methodology used, and, thirdly, represents the results of this research.
The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal a... more The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal and musical structures. The author, first, represents the shamanic family-clanic tradition of the Chalkans (small Turkic speaking group from Altai), secondly, describes the methodology used, and, thirdly, represents the results of this research.
Статья посвящена рассмотрению основных подходов к изучению музыки в шаманизме, сложившихся и функ... more Статья посвящена рассмотрению основных подходов к изучению музыки в шаманизме, сложившихся и функционирующих в современной антропологии и музыковедении. Автор характеризует различные направления в каждом из них, приводя в качестве примеров и анализируя наиболее показательные труды. Литература (источники и исследования) подобрана таким образом, чтобы позволить читателю самостоятельно расширить библиографический список. Изложение следует хронологическому порядку и отражает логику развития научного знания в избранной области. Два наиболее ранних подхода - музыкально-этнографический и музыкально-теоретический - продолжают сохраняться и развиваться до сих пор. Относительно недавно на их основе начал формироваться комплексно-текстологический подход. Все они ориентированы на изучение самой музыки в этнографическом контексте (тексториентированные подходы). Позже появляются многочисленные труды музыкально-антропологического и культурологического направлений, довольно подробно исследующие кон...
The paper is devoted to a definition of the shamanic text category, which is, in the author's... more The paper is devoted to a definition of the shamanic text category, which is, in the author's opinion, one of the key components of the "intonation texf' dichotomy, relevant for shamanic cultures. The aim of the work is to define the specificity of shamanic text, to reveal its essential features and then to interpret them. The scientific importance of work lies in theoretical clearing-up the specified category. The practical value is in its use for interpretation of complex and obscure ritual texts. Any element of such text can express a large number of information containing beyond its limits which is displayed only if needed. It allows us to explain the seeming incoherent character, closeness and opacity of the contents of shaman texts. The text is stipulated by the ceremony course, nature of ceremonial communication and a psychophysical condition of the expert who is carrying out the ritual (a so-called shaman trance or ecstasy). This determines its saturation by ele...
The article focuses on the song tradition of the Chalkans – a small Turkic-speaking population li... more The article focuses on the song tradition of the Chalkans – a small Turkic-speaking population living in a taiga zone of southern Siberia. The main objectives are: analysis of archival collections; comparison of the results of this analysis with historical data; and possible reconstruction of the historical process of the spreading of melodies in the area.The introduction examines different concepts of transhumance as applied to cultural artefacts. This concept is then discussed with regard to the Chalkan culture. Natural, social, economic and historical contexts are briefly described prior to the analysis of Chalkan songs. After discussing materials and methodology, historical strata of the song tradition are described, and the category of lyric songs with modal tunes is examined in greater detail. A general description is provided of its grammar as well as the conceptualisation of the songs, followed by analysis of the distribution of two main versions of tunes (3H- or “major” and...
The author introduces and examines in detail a dichotomic correlative pair Intonating – Text, whi... more The author introduces and examines in detail a dichotomic correlative pair Intonating – Text, which is relevant for the considerable number of the oral traditions. Shamanic tradition being a subject of the author’s research is an impressive example of such relevance. The author suggests the comparison between the given dichotomy and the similar one, namely, “Speech – Text” in language. The definition of each of the members of the dichotomy in respect to the shamanic tradition is also proposed. “Shamanic intonating” is comprehended as sound ritual and pararitual activity of the shaman and shamanists; “shamanic text” is interpreted as a holistic syncretic verbal-musical composition resulting of shamanic intonating. The author compares the dichotomy with a triad “Sound – Sounding – Music”. Keywords : Shamanic text, oral tradition
The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal a... more The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal and musical structures. The author, first, represents the shamanic family-clanic tradition of the Chalkans (small Turkic speaking group from Altai), secondly, describes the methodology used, and, thirdly, represents the results of this research.
The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal a... more The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal and musical structures. The author, first, represents the shamanic family-clanic tradition of the Chalkans (small Turkic speaking group from Altai), secondly, describes the methodology used, and, thirdly, represents the results of this research.
The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal a... more The article discusses how shamanic cosmology is represented in the shamanic text, in its verbal and musical structures. The author, first, represents the shamanic family-clanic tradition of the Chalkans (small Turkic speaking group from Altai), secondly, describes the methodology used, and, thirdly, represents the results of this research.
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