Areas of of early traditional winter-time tunes in the Ubort‘ river basin (Middle Polissya)

Abstract

The article presents the winter-time song traditions from the Middle Polissya, which are localized in the Ubort‘ river basin (Ukrainian-Belarusian borderland). The most common rhythmic compositional types in this area (‹V55,r4›, ‹V55;R45›, ‹V55r3;R553›, ‹V44r3;R443›) and their melic versions are considered there.The research was provided in meloarealogy aspect. The investigation of sublocal musical traditions is based on the method of pitch-sound modeling. Detailed mapping of melodies and rhythmic varieties of rhythmotypes will help to reveal the melodialectic structure of the investigated territory. For areal conclusions, the spread of other winter-time tunes is also indicative. Separately, the correlation between ethno-musical and ritual-ethnographic division of the terri-tory is specified. At the end of the article, parallels are drawn with the melogeographic conclusions obtained earlier on the materials of the spring-summer cycle.The article is illustrated with musical examples, tables of music models and geographic maps.