Article

Name: Tuvan “Song of the Caravan Leaders”: from Mongolian origins to the present day

Authors: U. O. Donorova

Tuva Institute for Humanitarian and Applied Socio-Economic Research under the Government of the Republic of Tyva, Kysyl, Russian Federation

In the section Песенный фольклор

Abstract:

The article explores the origins and evolution of the Tuvan folk song “Beezhin.” During the years of the Tu-van 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 environ-ment 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.

Keywords: musical culture of the Tuvans, Tuvan folk song, song-play, “Beezhin,” “Bezhin Lama,”

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