Русские лирические песни Сибири и Дальнего Востока. - 1997. (Т. 14.)

old-resident’s songs. The book is read as a multi-planned and at the same time as one piece life history of the people’s soul. A reader could picture the joys and sorrows, deep thoughts about life. These songs are extremely expressive and confessionaL They really purify, enlighten and ennoble the human spirit. The poetry of the lyric songs is rich in the finest symbolism, specific details and the variety of rhythm. A contemporary reader with surprise and pride will find deep emotional experience of the Russian soul, the richness of thoughts and feelings in the folk songs. These songs perhaps will help many people understand the pheno­ menon of the Russian national character. Taking into account the thematic, full plot character and artistic value of the song texts, the book can be considered as an original lyric song encyclopaedia of the vast region of Russia. The book will definitely be interesting also for linguists as it reveals original dialectal features and historical merging in the language. In the introductory philological article are given the history of collecting and publication of songs, a compilation of song texts in the book, a short characteristics of the main song cycles. A musicological section of the volume is represented by the article of professor from Moscow conservatory V.M. Shurov "The Musical Peculiarities of Lyric, Round Dance and Game Songs", as well as by a musical notation supplement included into which are 45 tunes of lyric and round songs of Siberia. Side by side with the notations taken from the most reliable musical publications of the last decades included into the notation supplement are the samples from the folklore collection of the archive phonograms from Pushkin House, Moscow and Novosibirsk conservatories, Krasnoyarsk Peda­ gogical University and from some other places. All these samples are publi­ shed for the first time. The three round songs from Pritobolye region are represented in two variants in the supplement — modern and the first published in the Siberian journal of the Tobolsk Province Museum in 1895. In the musicological article are given the characteristics of the song style typical for many old residents’ folklore centres (mode-melodic, timbrear- ticulatory and rhythmic-composition features). All these features had been formed during the period of more than three centuries of the Russian people living in Siberia. The author of the article defines also the specific features of the folklore culture of the most vivid local singing traditions — old residents’, old believers’ ("starover"), Cossacks’. In all the necessary cases the author establishes the relations and correlation between the Siberian, Euro­ pean Russian folklore traditions (performing and stylistic). The record enclosed to the book demonstrates the most interesting samples of several Siberian-Russian performing manners of lyric and round songs. The notes, besides the passport data of the published texts, contain all the necessary information about the Siberian and Far East variants which have been revealed by the compilers of the book as a result of a long and labour-intensive work. Also they contain the regional performing features.