Oral stories of the Chinese Tuvinians about the origin of instrumental folk tunes performed on a shoor
The paper analyzes oral stories about the origin of the instrumental folk tunes performed on a shoor and based the folklore of the Chinese Tuvinians. It is found that for understanding the semantics of instrumental folk tunes account should be taken of the fact that the verbal part contained in oral stories bears a big semantic load. The verbal formulas used for the melodies on a shoor are most often presented in a truncated form: it is mainly monological speech of the main characters of a narration where the main idea of the whole text is concentrated. It is reasonable to say that the verbal component plays a special role in a musical melodic of a shoor since it is precisely the knowledge of the initial verbal text motivates people to creating the corresponding melody with the use of those formula expressions which sounded in the narrative texts.