Shamanistic ritual ceremony and accompanying music as the worldview basis of traditional culture

Abstract

This article is a comprehensive study of shamanic ritual music in syncretic unity with ritual rite, which is inextricably linked with an ethnic worldview. The aim of this work is to identify and substantiate the need to study ritual music based on a fundamentally new methodological setting – the study of ritual as an archetype of culture, determination of the compositional structure and semantic filling. The research is devoted to the mysteries of the sacred musical world of shamanic ritual, the ultimate state of the shaman as a musician, his spiritual world, cultural environment, the understanding of the morphology and semantics of the use of music in ritual, the formation of a cultural code, stylistic features, genre forms, musical thinking, musical language, means of expression, individualized and personally colored vocal and instrumental improvisation.