Песенна парадигма
Vocal Paradigm

Summary/Abstract: Bearing in mind the specific nature of folkloric works, ‘the paradigm’ category is suggested as a basis for analyzing them (for musical folklore – vocal paradigm). A number of identical variants of a definite model are understood under this word. The variant of a song (as a textual-musical whole) is respectively a unit of the vocal paradigm. Its invariant may be defined on the basis of the sum of the subject-ideative signs and is a symbol uniting the paradigm. Analysis of a vocal paradigm includes establishing the regular features of varying, of the criteria for identifying the variants, for stability and changeability. The general semantic code is important for it, while the generality of form is not obligatory. The action of a vocal paradigm is manifested on an ethnic and an inter-ethnic scale, in time and space. Varying is closely linked with the mode of thought and perception of the milieu. In its turn, it is determined by the socio-economic development of the ethnos, the type of culture, the social relations in the milieu, its sexual and age structure, artistic traditions, the presence of inner-ethnic articulation, and the interaction between the folklore and the literary process. In reflecting the life of a folkloric work, its changeability under the influence of the milieu, the category vocal paradigm is important for the historico-typological study of folklore.

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