TIPURI MELODICE ÎN CÂNTECUL RITUAL DE NUNTĂ
MELODIC TYPES IN THE RITUAL WEDDING SONG FROM BUCOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The ritual wedding song repertoire collected by Alexandru Voievidca, a teacher from Suceava, at the beginning of the twentieth century from the historical Bukovina, which is kept in the National Romanian Library — the department Special Collections — Cabinet of manuscripts, comprises 41 pieces illustrating all the ritual moments of the wedding which involves performing a ritual song. The documentary material was collected during the years 1907-1914 from a total of 28 localities. The typological classification is carried out according to the model of typological classification developed by Ilona Szenik and Lucia Istoc, and is published under the title "Project of Classification of Popular Vocal Music" in the "Yearbook of Folklore" V–VII, 1987 Cluj Napoca, p. 305–353. The songs were arranged on three branches according to the general modal-tonal content as follows: branch A contains songs of major state, branch B contains songs of minor state, and branch C contains songs of a neutral state without the modal third. Within each branch are delimited 3 supergroups (supergroup I = unilinear, supergroup II = descendant, supergroup III = arched), classes, subclasses and types having as general criterion a cadence profile. Thus, the melodic ritual song types, types of other genres and types of ritual dance song are destroyed. Typology illustrates the structural diversity of the wedding ritual songs of many types from Bukovina and their resistance over a century, showing extraordinary ability for conserving the folklore of the indigenous communities from Bukovina.

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