Plot of Vilyui olonkho Mighty Er Sogotokh in the context of communication between words and music

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that interest in the connection between words and music in the Yakut folk song has arisen since the formation of Yakut ethnomusicological science. At the same time, special scholarly works devoted to the ratio of the verbal part and the tune of the song sections of the olonkho, related to the plot of the epic, are also absent. Of interest are the research of comparing the plot of the verbal part of songs in olonkho with the quantivative rhythm of tunes. This determines the relevance of this article. Discussion. In musicology, the connection of word and music is studied in terms of comparing the intonations of music and speech. Research was also carried out in the field of communication between words and music at the phonological level. Comparison of the plot of songs with music was carried out from the point of view of phraseology, but the relationship of the plot with quantivative rhythm is absent due to the fact that the quantivative rhythm of Yakut traditional tunes has not been investigated. It seems that nevertheless, some kind of relationship between the plot and the quantivative rhythm of the chant is present in the song sections of the olonkho. The purpose of the article is to investigate the relationship of the plot of the Vasily Karataev’s olonkho Mighty Er Sogotokh in the context of the connection between word and music in the Yakut tradition of the Vilyui region. Based on the goal, the following tasks are formed: study the word text preceding the song and its plot in relation to the tune; identify the connection of the music of the song sections with the word in the beginnings and during the transition of singing into speech; consider the relationship of the plot with the quantivative rhythm of the tune the songs of zoomorphic characters. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that the plot of the Karataev’s Mighty Er Sogotokh in the context of the connection between word and music in the Yakut tradition of the Vilyui region is being studied for the first time. Musical material is the notations by N. N. Nikolaeva of the recordings by Vasily Illarionov 1982 and 1986 years of the Karataev’s olonkho Mighty Er Sogotokh, published in her monograph “Epic olonkho and Yakut opera” (1993) and in the volume “Yakut Heroic Epic Mighty Er Sogotokh” (1996) series “Monuments of Folklore of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East”. The methodological basis was the research works of M. G. Kondratyev, E. N. Kuzmina, T. V. Popova, A. P. Reshetnikova. The work uses the comparative method. The results of the study are related to the fact that the plot of olonho is associated with the singing of the obligatory preparation of the appearance and end of the song, direct relationships are found in the tinted speech of bundles and endings, and in the beginnings of song sections. The songs of zoomorphic characters belonging to epic characters based on plot motifs are transmitted mainly by seven-syllables and eight-syllables, which are realized in singing by a quantivative trochee, and in the song of the horse initial and cadence by a quantivative iamb. The work carried out found that the Vilyui tradition is dominated by more ancient mobile forms of rhythmic organization.

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