To the origins of the formation of the musical language (based on the material of Uzbek folklore)
The lack of direct and reliable sources-samples of archaic musical creativity, determines the appeal to indirect data of various orders, which allow us to model the compositional indicators of a musical language at an early stage of formation. The only segment that forms an archaic melody is the formula. From the point of view of the formation of musical thinking, the fact of the isolation of discrete elements - a melodic formulas that are in certain relationships with each other is significant. In the development of musical language, this was a very significant step that separated the period of unconscious sound production from the era that opened up the possibilities of structuring. The formula functions in the context of the total operating principle of "stringing". The latter characterizes the" openness "of the composition - the absence of a fixed "beginning" and "end", the functional equality of segments of formulas, the sequence of which is not directed and is not quantitatively limited, a weak level of connectivity. Like other facts of an archaic musical text, the logical and, accordingly, semantic justification of the described compositional principle is a secondary and derivative phenomenon; the meaning of the first stimulus is a circle of phenomena (ritual, magical action) that have an extra-musical nature and are included in the concept of "tradition".