Ganich O. The Problem of the origin Ukrainian folk ballad.

The dissertation is the first complete study of the problem of the origin of the Ukrainian folk ballad. The set of ballads is presented as a dynamic system, which has its own logic and particularities of the development. The typological features of the genre are determined on the base of the analysis of printed and archive material with realization of synchronous and diachronous output in cycles of ballads of the product close and more remote on concrete history stage. The regularities of the shaping and developments of the certain varieties of the ballad are installed as a result of complex approach. The evolution model of the types of the folk ballad is presented.