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Tradition and Innovation in Slavic Literatures, Linguistics,and Stylistics (Robert F. Allen) 558BOOKS RECEIVED 560INDEX TO VOLUME V (1981) 563CONTRIBUTORSAlbert B. Lord is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Slavic and ComparativeLiterature at Harvard University.I. S. Koropeckyj is professor of economics at Temple University, Philadelphia.Frank E. Sysyn is assistant professor of history at Harvard University.Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak is associate professor of history at ManhattanvilleCollege, Purchase, New York.
Comparative Slavic EpicALBERT В. LORDOral epic poetry or, more precisely, oral traditional narrative song hasbeen practiced by Slavs speaking Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian,and Bulgarian. The primary concern of this essay is to investigate a fewfacets of the relationship between South Slavic — that is, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian — oral traditional epic and that of the EasternSlavs — that is, the Russians and Ukrainians. It is proper to begin witha description of some outward manifestations of these four languagetraditions.One of the most evident differences between the East Slavic andSouth Slavic epic traditions is that the metrical system of the former isbasically tonic, or non-syllabic, whereas that of the latter is basicallysyllabic. Related to this difference is another: South Slavic epic songsare either accompanied by a bowed instrument or unaccompanied,whereas East Slavic epics are either accompanied by a plucked instrumentor unaccompanied. The only instrument really strummed in theSouth Slavic epic traditions is the tambura in northern Bosnia. Specifically,the South Slavic musical instruments are the bowed onestringedgusle and the bowed three-stringed g'dulka. The East Slavicinstruments are the kobza or bandura and (formerly) the Russiangusli. It seems possible, then, for there to be an opposition betweentonic or non-syllabic meter, accompanied by a plucked or struckmusical instrument, and syllabic meter, accompanied by a bowedinstrument. This principle seems to apply also to the relationshipbetween the plucked harp of older Germanic poetries — or, at anyrate, of Anglo-Saxon poetries — with their stressed/unstressed meter,as compared with the medieval French tradition's bowed rebec, a closerelative of the g'dulka, with its decasyllabic/hendecasyllabic metricalbase, similar, indeed, to the South Slavic decasyllable. Noteworthy,perhaps, is that the non-syllabic meter is found in northern Europe andRussia, whereas the syllabic occurs in southern Europe, including theBalkans.
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