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DSc in Arts, Leading Researcher, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
The research was carried out as part of the state project “The Writing Traditions of the Peoples of the Baikal Region in the Context of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of Russia and Inner Asia” (No. 121031000263-3).
This article examines archetypal modal structures in the traditional music of the Buryat people. The trichord, one of the universal and widespread modal archetypes in music, is the basic modal model in the sonic thinking of the Buryats in all of their local ethnic subgroups — the Western Echirites, Bulagats, Khongodors, Eastern Khori, and southern Selengins. This is its primary characteristic. The purpose of this article is to examine on different levels the archetypal structure of the trichord in Buryat traditional musical culture. The author of the article designates the trichord modal as the music’s first modal archetype (I LA), a stable harmonic unit in the root system of traditional Buryat music. She presents pitch and harmonic analysis of such genres of Buryat musical culture as native ritual songs (milaangyn duunuud), table songs (archiin/arsiin duunuud),and dance music (eohor duunuud) accompanying the Buryat round dance yehor (eohor). In addition, the article shows the mechanism of trichord formation by analyzing the half-tone second in early folk genres of traditional Buryat music. Apparently, it is not fortuitous that the musicologist E. M. Alkone has called the trichord modal structure the music’s “formula of life.” Its viability testifies to the persistence of traditional musical, folkloric and mythological thinking.
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