Abstract
The article explores the origins and evolution of the Tuvan folk song “Beezhin.” During the years of the Tuvan People’s Republic (1921–1944), the song under study was borrowed from the Mongolian original, the song-play “Sumuyaa noyon.” Since the 1980s until now, the song “Beezhin” has been serving as a folk song in Tuva. Of great interest in modern culture are the ways of adaptation, development in the folklore environment and transformation of this song in the author’s songwriting of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People’s khoomeizhi Tuva Kaigal-ool Khovalyg. This research was conducted on the basis of valuable archival materials from the Collection of Manuscripts and Rare Documents of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), the Scientific Archive of the Tuvan Institute for the Humanities and Applied Social and Economic Studies, including some samples of the text presented in the author’s translation from Tuvan into Russian.
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