PERIOD IN THE MUSICAL STRUCTURE OF HUTSUL LAMENTATIONS (“PRYKAZUVANNIA”): THE MODEL AND ITS MODIFICATIONS

Анотація

The article, which is based on archive materials and the author’s personal fieldwork, is dedicated to the vocal recitative genre – lamentation. It explores its functioning and characteristics in Hutsul tradition and in all-Ukrainian context. It studies the role of verbal and musical elements of a lamentation and their interrelations.
The main subject of the research, though, is distinctive structure of Hutsul lamentations (“prykazuvannia”). Its main peculiarity lies in two-component nature of each part of the lamentation, that is to say that the basis of formula composition is the higher musical-syntax unit – a period.
Different examples of modifications of the ustup of periodical type are demonstrated in the research as well.
 Key words: lamentation, funeral ritual, Hutsulshchyna region, ustup, recitative form, paratactic relation.