Principles of recording and publicationof folklore in "Lyreplayers" of Valerian Borzhkovskiy.

Abstract

Oksana Shalak analyzed the methodological principles of recording folklore by Borzhkovskiy, researcher of Podillja folk culture. B. Borzhkovskiy – Podolsk folklorist, ethnographer, historian, statistician and social activist, author of several fundamental papers.The author reveals some aspects of researcher’s biography: his education, principles of folklore studies and so on. He drew attention to the repertoire and to the execution context; trying to reproduce phonetically language features and gives verbal sketch of performers in his exploration of „Lyre-players”.Recreating the language of the narrator, V. Borzhkovskiy tried to keep her features, though indulged with the Russian graphs.Collector drew attention to context of performance, noting that the satirical and humorous songs lyre singing at various fun occasions.This publication analyzes the record by B. Borzhkovskyi lyre player information from Nikon. The author considers valuable observation record folklore that the creators of religious and moralistic songs Nykin considered saints and apostles, and the lyre looks as followers of Christ.Valerian Borzhkovskiy records is characteristic page of folklore science atsecond half ХІХ century. His valuable acquisition was a young collector’s dictionary of „Lebiyska” language collected through long talks with lyrists.Particular folklorist’s attention is drawn dumaabout Konovchenko: time, place of performance and performers.Textual analysis of his researches and correspondence open up features of methods used by him.