Mahovska S. The Wedding songs of Podillia Region: functioning, poetry, symbolics.

The problems of functioning, poetry, symbolics of Podillia region wedding song are researched in the dissertation "The Wedding songs of Podillia Region: functioning, poetry, symbolics". The aspects of interaction of wedding ceremony and wedding songs are traced. The history of records of the wedding songs, and publications of descriptions of the Podillia weddings are analyzed. The areals and specifications of the main song-types in Podillia region, their varieties and components are determined. The artistic originality, the genre composition, evolution and the modern state of the existence of the wedding poetry is defined in the work. All this allowed us to systematize the wedding folk-lore, to determine specific traits of the folk song tradition of the region, to define, on the basis of the concrete analyses of the textual song materials the position of the wedding songs of Podillia region in the Ukrainian folk-lore process; to trace the evolution of the motives, characters, artistic details, etc.