Armas Otto Vyaysyanen and Robert Lach - the main aspects of the analysis of the material on Mordovian musical folklore

Modina Ekaterina Olegovna

Armas Otto Vaisyanen was born in Savonranta (Finland). Studied at the University of Helsinki. Has the title of Master (1919), Doctor of Science (1939), Professor. He is a collector and researcher of Finnish folk music and traditional music of other Finno - Ugric peoples, who is considered a classic in his field. This person is one of the few outstanding figures who worked with traditional folk vocal and instrumental recordings of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. His many field studies have resulted in about 6,000 tunes, surpassing all the achievements of earlier collectors. Väisänen became known to the general public as a connoisseur of Finnish folk music and the Karelian language. His works made a great contribution to the study of different national cultures. Together with professor, Dr. Robert Lakhs, he goes on an ethnographic expedition to the Mordovian villages. On the basis of the collected material, Vaisyanen published the book "Mordwinische melodies", which opens the curtain of the musical picture of the world of the Mordovians - Erzya and Mordovians - Moksha of that time for modern folklorists. In this work, traditional Mordovian songs recorded in 1914 are transcribed. These unique records were published in 1948 by the Finno - Ugric Society in Helsinki. Besides the book version, there is also audio material. The whole uniqueness of this work lies not only in the notated version of musical samples, but also in the opportunity to hear the true performance of the bearers of traditional culture. This makes it possible for modern researchers to have a more complete understanding of the Mordovian traditional musical culture and to hear the characteristic manner of singing characteristic of the Mordovians of that time.

Keywords:Folklore, traditions, researcher, folklorist, ethnographer, musical - song, traditional, Vaisyanen, Finno - Ugric, Mordva, Erzya, Moksha.