Traditional musical culture of Kabardino-Balkaria

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The mountain ethnos and epic songs are the most important and inexhaustible source of works of traditional musical culture of Kabardino-Balkaria. In general, this heritage has great aesthetic value, is a symbol of the courage and heroism of the people, as well as a powerful factor for the development of national music in general - both folk and professional. The musical folklore of the Kabardians and Balkars had and is having a profound influence on the emergence of new works of historical and heroic content, on the appearance of works of other musical genres of Balkar-Karachai folklore.

The folk song creativity and the national school of composition were naturally built on their history, paying tribute to the heroic breath of past centuries, the tales of hoary antiquity and the entire history of the region as a whole. In many features of the musical culture of Kabardino-Balkaria, there is a commonality with the culture of its neighbors, due to the mutual influence and interpenetration of song cultures and forms.

For example, in two songs - the Ossetian “About Yesen Kanukov” and the Balkar “About Sary-Aslanbek Kaytukin”, telling about the same event (the attack of the Kabardian feudal lord on the Ossetian village), there is not only a common melody, but the same “intermediate” kadans, and also kadans “final” (in the Ossetian version it also corresponds to the most common intonational form).

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, folk music was still heavily dependent on traditions, but the culture of ancient singing was gradually lost, moving from the everyday to the concert sphere. The role of folk musical instruments has also changed. Thus, shikapshin was known and improved only thanks to individual enthusiasts, losing its usual sphere of existence. On the other hand, the harmonica became popular and began to replace traditional musical instruments. In Soviet times, and following the strict course of the Communist Party of actively attracting workers to amateur artistic performances, many music circles were organized - choral and instrumental. New songs began to glorify a new way of life, a new life, to educate young people in the spirit of compliance with the interests of the state, which should have stood above the awareness of their ethnocultural and ethnosocial affiliation.

At the end of the thirties of the 50th century, the process of formation of the Kabardian professional musical culture began. Russian specialists provided invaluable assistance in this, and especially in organizing music schools, the State Philharmonic, the Kabardian State Choir and other structures of the state cultural system. The Kabardino-Balkarian musical culture received its greatest development in the period of the 80-XNUMXs of the last century.

One of the most significant events of that time in the field of professional musical art was the opening of the Kabardian Opera Studio at the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad Conservatory, whose graduates made a significant contribution to the development of culture in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Another, and no less important, event was the opening of the state musical theater with opera and ballet troupes, the composition of which was constantly replenished with talented national personnel - graduates of the country's leading higher and secondary specialized educational institutions. Folk melodies have always been used in professional Kabardian musical culture. National ballets and operas were organized, and many musical performances were staged. The original and vibrant musical culture of Kabardino-Balkaria did not undergo significant transformation until the end of the last century.

The end of the 20th century was marked by a process of gradual loss of the culture of folk singing and playing music, its place is now increasingly engaged in modern pop culture.

According to forecasts, even if cultural institutions, public organizations and the mass media do not pursue a corrective policy of preserving the folk dance and song-music tradition, then in the near future the trends of strengthening the transformation and weakening of this culture can continue, which will lead to domination in the latter is only her stage version.

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