Russian folk songs

Russian folk songs

Russian folk song

▶ is a piece of folklore, which is stored in people's memory and

passed from mouth to mouth.

▶ is a product of collective oral creativity of the Russian people.

▶ Reflects the inner spiritual world of a person, his or her

joys and troubles, hopes and disappointments.

▶ The words and music of such songs have developed historically.

The author of Russian folk songs is the folk.

Russian folk songs

Can be divided into ritual and non-ritual .

Ritual songs are associated with some ancient customs.

With their help people (they believed in it) could affect the forces of nature.

Russian folk songs

can be divided into the following groups

Ritual

magnification

glorification

( величания )

lamentation

wail

( причитания)

fortunetelling

songs

( гадальные)

calls to the natural forces

( заклички к силам природы )

roundelay songs

(хороводные)

Non-ritual

labor songs

(трудовые)

soldierly songs

( солдатские )

dance songs

( плясовые)

lyrical

(лирические)

ditties ,

rhymes

(частушки )

cradle songs

dance songs

roundelay songs

soldierly songs

ditties , rhymes

lyrical

labor songs

game songs

Wedding songs

- were sung by the bride and her girl-friends

- mourned the fate of the girl

- were mostly lingering and sad

Russian folk songs

can be

burlaks’ songs

recruits’ songs

robbers’ songs

coachmen’ songs

Great examples of Russian folk songs

The presentation was made by Nina Orlova

School 70 Kazan,

Tatarstan