Фольклор белорусов Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Ч. 1: Семейно-обрядовые песни и причитания. - 2011. (Т. 31.)

Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, and Irkutsk provinces, as well as in the Al­ tai and Krasnoyarsk District and the Far East. The recorded lyrics and musical scores in the volume demonstrated the preservation of the main typological properties and regional diversity of Byelorussian family ritual (primarily wedding) folklore. Also evident are early signs of change in the original traditions after they came to be practiced on Siberian soil. The volume's corpus of songs is prefaced by scholarly articles. The first article, «Byelorussian folklore traditions in Siberia and the Far East» is writ­ ten by the Siberian specialist N.V. Leonova and is dedicated to historical facets connected with the volume's contents. The author briefly lays out the history of Byelorussian migration to Siberia, noting particularities of their dispersal through the region. The article also characterizes the history of recording, publishing, and studying Byelorussian folklore in Siberia. In ad­ dition, it illuminates the historiography behind the preparation of the vol­ ume itself including how sources were located, how the volume was con­ ceptualized, and how certain textological problems were solved. The philological article, «Family ritual poetry of Byelorussians in Sibe­ ria and the Far East» was prepared by Byelorussian folklorists K.P. Kabashni- kov and A.S. Fedosik. The authors describe the main ritual events and the folkloric repertoire of the Siberian-Byelorussian wedding, noting which fea­ tures it shares in common and which are unique when compared to Byelorussian folklore in Europe. Also included are shorter descriptions of baptismal songs, lullabies, funeral laments, which are relatively less numer­ ous in Siberian and Far Eastern collections. The musicological article, «Musical particularities in wedding songs of Byelorussians in Siberia and the Far East», is written by the Byelorussian musicologist T.B. Varfolomeeva. The author conducts a typological investi­ gation of Siberian wedding tunes, classifying them according to functional and stylistic features and characterizing the main varieties of nine typical Byelorussian wedding refrains that have been marvelously preserved in Si­ berian and Far Eastern provinces. In the corpus of texts in the volume «Byelorussian folklore of Siberia and the Far East», the material representing family ritual songs and chants begins with a section entitled «Wedding folklore». It contains 430 examples (160 of which are accompanied by musical score), which are grouped in 15 subsections reflecting the structure and order of Siberian Byelorussian wed­ ding ritual beginning with matchmaking and ending with the departure of guests after the final wedding rituals are completed.