Русский семейно-обрядовый фольклор Сибири и Дальнего Востока. - 2002. (Т. 22.)

action-based) and folkloric (oral and poetic) elements o f the funeral cycle, and to identifying the ritual and mythological roots o f the system o f poetic imagery o f laments. N.V. Leonova’s article, which likewise appears in the volume’s second half, also characterizes two performance versions o f lamentation: tradi­ tional-formulaic (tending toward professional oratory) and a later, sponta­ neous improvisation, during which fixed elements o f musical-poetic form (those brought to mind by bearers o f the tradition and carried forward from text to text) are juxtaposed in various ways with more mobile elements (improvised during individual performances). The article also describes methods o f functional replacement o f funeral laments by other folkloric productions (for example, lyric songs or spiritual poetry) or by non-folkloric genres (Orthodox Church prayers) widespread in Siberia. The section on folkloric texts includes 54 laments (20 of these with musical scores) divided into several groups: laments for a mother, father, husband, sister, children, and others. Funeral folklore is practically the exclusive domain o f female performers, though the volume also contains several examples o f laments performed from memory by a man in imita­ tion o f the traditional improvisation o f his mother or sister. As an addition to the first part of the volume we have published material prepared by L.E. Fetisova. I t includes a complete description o f the ritual and the song repertoire o f one o f the more recent (from the second half of the 19th to the beginning o f the 20th century) immigrant traditions o f the Far East, the Kursk tradition. As an addition to the second half we have published material on the funeral rite with texts o f laments (36 examples). These were prepared by T.I. Matveeva and reflect the contemporary existence o f the original ritual o f one Siberian tradition: the Transbaikal Old Believers living in the Buryat Republic and Chita District. Notes to the wedding and funeral texts contain information about the location, time and author o f the recording, as well as about the performers and the circumstances in which the songs, laments, or chants were per­ formed Also indicated are Siberian variants o f each published text (some of these are printed in full to demonstrate the range o f possible variations in plot and language), and parallels found in the classic editions of RLmiami folklore (the collections o f P.V. Kireevsky, A.I. Sobolevsky, and РЛ/.'£hdm)i jThe .volume’s referential appendix also consists o f indices of perfarnqer^f оdolleatdfis aindi placiar io£ :тейокйпф;iani ilphabfetid J itiidex>ro f ^'eddmg;5cmgs,rjlaments,:_and c hants; & gl o ssary :of т аге words, archaism,