RITUAL MUSIC OF THE EASTERN HORI-BURYAT AND SOUTHERN SELENGINSKY: ON THE ISSUE OF GENRE TYPOLOGY

Abstract

This article presents for the first time the author's genre typology of ritual music of Eastern KhoriBuryats and Southern Selenginsky. The classification of ritual music is based on the analysis of the genre system of Buryat ritual folklore. For the first time in Buryat folklore and ethnomusicology, the author of this article proposed a conditional differentiation of the ritual music of Eastern Khori-Buryats and Southern Selengin people into four ritual blocks (cattle plots, hunting songs; ritual glorifications; wedding songs, folk songs accompanying the Buryat circular dance eohor; music of the Buddhist cult). In addition, genre differences between the Eastern Khori-Buryat and Selenginsky South Buryat ritual song traditions are considered. The study of the local genre specifics of the ritual song tradition revealed intonation-genre connections in the root system of the Buryat ritual culture and clarified the points of similarities and differences in the musical dialects of the Buryats.