The article discusses the features of funeral and commemorative lamentations of the folk tradition in the Khoper river basin. Comparing with the lamentations of other regions, Cossack funeral lamentations reveal the amazing stability of the musical and poetic system. There are firmly fixed formula blocks both in the texts of lamentations and in tunes. Those components that are mobile in the lamentations of the central Russia are typified and become steady here. The work is based on expeditionary materials from the archive of K. V. Kvitka Folk Music Research Center at Moscow State Conservatory.
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