Humeniuk O. Love Lyrics in Song Folklore by Crimean Tatars: Thematic Motives, Peculiarities of Poetics

This is the first monographic researching of the folk love song by Crimean Tatars. The critic investigates the makam – the ancient genre, where sad love motives are united with philosophical meditations, and the genre of the light lyric song, where vivacity, playfulness is contrasting to elegiac tonality. Beside the elegiac ones the sons of the overcoming upon troubles and difficulties and the songs of happy love are investigated. A comprehension of sorrows and pleasures of love; a translation of a broad scale of feelings and of slender tins of mood; picturesque metaphors and concentrated symbols in a laconic figurative manner; a dynamic development of a lyric plot, where one can guess contours of a narrative topic; slenderness and refinement of composition (successive, retrospective or mosaic); a system of reiterations, which reinforce an ornamental concord of exposition; an effective sound and rhythmic organization – such are the main peculiarities of the of love lyric folk songs by Crimean Tatars.