INSTRUMENTAL CULTURE OF THE VOLGA REGION PEOPLES: AESTHETICS OF THE TRADITIONAL CHUVASH RITUALS
Mikhailova Alevtina Anatol'evna
Saratov State Conservatoire
Submitted: 18.09.2018
Abstract. The article is devoted to the traditional instrumental culture of the multinational Volga region. Relying on written and oral-poetic sources, the author examines the functioning of different types of folk instruments in the Chuvash culture. Applying to the traditional Chuvash culture, the paper identifies the ways of usage and the role of musical instruments in traditional rites and rituals, analyses their preservation degree nowadays. The researcher focuses on the genre and stylistic peculiarities of instrumental music playing during the modern Chuvash wedding ritual.
Key words and phrases: инструментальная культура, гусли, гармонь, скрипка, барабан, колокольчики, свадебный и погребальный обряды, частушка-такмак, песенный и плясовой наигрыши, звукоидеал, instrumental culture, gusli, accordion, violin, drum, small bells, wedding and funeral rituals, chastushka-takmak, vocal and dance folk-tunes, acoustic ideal
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