THE CURRENT STATE OF EXISTENCE OF SONG FOLKLORE OF THE SOUTH-WEST OF ZHETYSU (based on materials from the 2018 folk expedition to the Merke district of the Zhambyl region)

Merke district is located in the foothills of the Kyrgyz Alatau and has common borders with the north of Kyrgyzstan, Chuisky, Moyynkumsky and Ryskulovsky districts of Zhambyl region. The preservation in this area of traditional types of farming and the patriarchal way of life in social relations, contribute to the functioning of ritual and, mainly, non-ritual household songs. Among the recorded samples there are songs that have become nationwide, as well as everyday songs whose audio recordings were not recorded by the previous generation of researchers. These include: “House-house”, “Diridan”, “Arba Keledi”, “Zhel sozdin danasymyn”, “Igauzhan”, “Uri-soқ”, “Nurlygayyn”, etc. The author draws attention to the songs performed by words of songs from other regions. There are examples in which, after the main parts of the song samples, not “their” refrains follow, but a completely new material. All songs recorded in the folk expedition are composed in a semi-strophic and full-strophic musical forms. Melodies and songs are mainly based on the frets of the diatonic and combined (diatonic-pentatonic) systems.

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