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DSc in Arts, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature, Udmurt Federal Research Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
This article is devoted to a little-studied problem in ethnomusicology — the problem of an ethnic sound ideal, which is here considered as an archaic cultural text. The study is based on the song traditions of the Udmurts and Komi, whose languages linguists consider one group of Permian languages. This research employs a new approach, the concept of the sound landscape, developed concerning the Arctic sound environment at the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts. The article includes a brief review of the Russian literature devoted to the problem of the influence of the natural landscape on music.
The taiga where the ancestors of the Komi and Udmurts lived has been a significant part of the Ural Mountains for thousands of years. The natural environment, being one of the factors in the formation of ethnic psychology, was reflected in the peculiarities of the music making and intonation of the ancient Permians. The article examines the genres of sacred forest singing — field improvisations and improvised lamentations — that had a magical function. The author assumes that the manner of singing lamentations may have been formed in the forest taiga setting and that it is preserved in the most archaic layer of ritual singing.
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