Study of the modern use of ritual songs of foreign Kazakhs

Abstract

The main source of Kazakh musical culture is its ancient ritual folklore. It is known that in the XIX century, the oral performing culture reached its peak on the basis of samples of music from the centuries, folk kara olen, simple lyrical songs of the late time. The study of ritual patterns and comprehensive research allows us to understand the subtleties of the melody that lies in the ancient layers of our spiritual culture. The article contains a number of information collected during the expedition, stored in the older generation of Kazakhs of the Orenburg land. Together with it, data on toponomy with high historical and cultural significance is given. The study provides data preserved in the region until the 90s among the population (within the tradition of writing poetry) - kara olen, amandasu, salem aitu-greetings to each other, letters-poems, among which we can distinguish samples of seungsu. During the meeting with representatives of the older generation, who followed the ancient Kazakh traditions, a number of traditions and customs of the kyz uzatu holiday were outlined. Analyzing the collected samples of the songs "Uzatkan kyzdyn oleni", "Korisu", "Uzatylar kyzdyn tanysyp zhurip aitkany", etc., similarities were revealed with the musical and poetic form "zhyr" of the neighboring western regions and mainly with the 11-syllable form "kara olen". In the course of comparative analysis, it was revealed that the Orenburg motifs are rarely used (in various fret structures) of the III-IV-V, II-III-IV or I-II-III stages, which are found in the songs of the bride, ritual songs of the Western region of Kazakhstan, bordering on Orenburg. Brief information about another type of ritual samples – badik also provided. According to custom, together with a group of villagers treated the disease of a pet, they believed that with a song they would transfer the disease to a living object or inanimate object. Since samples of badik from the Russian Kazakhs were rarely found, the poetic text was analyzed.