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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 5 (179), 1203—1214

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.05.1203

UKRAINIAN FOLKLORE SONG IN OLEKSANDR DOVZHENKO’S RECORDS: HISTORY OF PUBLICATIONS, ANALYSIS OF MOTIVES AND PLOTS

KOVAL-FUCHYLO Iryna

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4048-9114
  • Ph.D. in Philology, Senior Research Fellow
  • Ukrainian and Foreign Folkloristics Department
  • at the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology
  • of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 1, Hrushevskoho str., 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: koval-fuchylo@ukr.net

Abstract. In December 1943 in Moscow Dovzhenko made the recordings from his mother. These are 32 song texts of Ukrainian folk Christmas carols, spring rite carols, and lyrical songs. The records are contained in a separate notebook, which consists of 30 sheets. The name of the collection is «Mother’s Songs». It is kept in the Central State Archive of Literature and Art of Russia in Moscow. The purpose of the publication is to describe the motives of these song texts in the context of the Ukrainian song tradition, to list the variants of these folk works, to indicate the list of publications of each text, to summarize the plot and motive features of Dovzhenko’s collection. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the motives and plots of O. Dovzhenko’s folklore recordings were analyzed for the first time in the context of Ukrainian song folklore.

The purpose of the publication is to describe the motives of these song texts in the context of the Ukrainian song tradition, to list the variants of these folk motives, to indicate the list of publications of each text, to summarize the plot and motive features of Dovzhenko’s collection. The object of research is the recording of Ukrainian folk songs by Oleksandr Dovzhenko from his mother, as well as various publications of these texts, motives and plots of folklore song texts in Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s recordings.

Research methods are determined by modern requirements for the analysis of folklore texts; the method of area research was used to describe the local song tradition; the comparative method, as well as the philological text-plot analysis of motives and plots, were used to identify plot parallels in song texts.

Records of Christmas carols from the collection of O. Dovzhenko contain motifs and plots characteristic of Volhynia, Podillia, and Slobozhanshchyna. Most often, these are songs for the owners and their children, for a young man, a girl, less often motifs with biblical characters, which were formed under the influence of folk tradition. Almost all ritual song of the winter cycle have variants in Zorian Dolenga-Khodakovsky’s collection of recordings. There is a rare carol plot about the Mother of God giving three names to the Son of God, as well as the motif of spring songs about the reflections of daughters who lament that without their father their luxuries will pass away.

Keywords: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Christmas carols, song motifs, Christmas carol motifs, Chernihiv region.

Received 30.08.2024

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