About the Existence of the “Milk Chang” Among the Tuvanians Bayanulgii Aimag of Mongolia
Abstract
The article pays attention to one of the ritual Tuvan songs – the song-spell of the sheep “tege”, which was recorded by the author of the article in April 2024 during an expedition to Sumon Tsengel Bayan-Ulgian aimag of Mongolia, the place of residence of ethnic Tuvans. This chant-spell is performed when a sheep mother refuses to feed her newborn lamb or a stranger who was left without a mother, to adopt a cub, as well as to calm the sheep during milking. The author performs a musicological analysis of the melody, makes a comparison of the TuvanMongolian conspiracy with similar traditions among the Tuvinians of the Republic of Tyva and Buryats and, based on comparisons of these related ethnic groups with cultural and historical contacts, identifies similar features of timbre, fret, melodic and rhythmic organizations.
About the Author
L. I. Kardashevskaya
Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Liya I.Kardashevskaya, Cand. Sc. (Art Criticism), Associate
Professor of the Department of Art History
677000, Yakutsk
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23. FIELD MATERIALS
24. Field materials of L.I. Kardashevskaya. Tuvans. April 2024, Recording of folklore performers in the village of Tsengel Bayan-Ulgiy aimag of Mongolia within the framework of the Strategic Academic Leadership Program “Priority 2030. The Far East”, in order to implement the AGICA project “Cultural Code: folklore and ethnographic expedition to Mongolia “Golden Threads of Turkic culture” under the leadership of O.D. Kovrova with the participation of students N.E. Uvarov and O.Nyamzhav.
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Kardashevskaya L.I. About the Existence of the “Milk Chang” Among the Tuvanians Bayanulgii Aimag of Mongolia. ARTE. 2024;(2):94-104. (In Russ.)
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