Geser. The Вuryat heroic epic

The uliger tunes are very old, they present kind ofВ aВ melodious recitative. The uligers did not have aВ certain fixed melody. Each rhapsode possessed one or more tunes and used it when performing all the uligers (stories, epics) that he knew. The peculiarity ofВ the Buryat folk music is pentatonism. The melody or tune is depended on the structure ofВ the verse. The verse and the tune closely interacted. S. Sh. Chagdurov and D. B. Badmatsyrenova noted that the golden section point is usually inВ the third quarter ofВ aВ musical phrase.

The golden section is marked inВ the compositional lay-out ofВ the uliger (epic) and gives prominence toВ the culminating points which are found not inВ the center ofВ the epical text but inВ its third quarter. The most important function ofВ the golden section inВ the text is semantical, notional, dynamical, structuring and euphonic. It is the symmetry ofВ the laws ofВ motion and growth inВ nature.

Due toВ the principle ofВ the Altan kheblig presented inВ the main constructive units ofВ the epic ofВ Geser the listeners could not but feel them.

The rhapsodes and the listeners could not but get adjusted to the betta-wave which dominated and caused the feeling of joy and success. In the rhythmical build-up of the verse in “Geser” an asymmetric division into the syllables is observed, when in the first hemistich there are 5 syllables, in the second 3 syllables. The interrelationship of 5 to 3 is 1. 66 which almost ideally corresponds to the proportion of the golden section.

In the scene of the struggle between Abai Geser and Orgoli tiger the beginning and the intensification of the action (384 lines) is one and a half times as longer as the culmination and the concluding lines (строка) (223 lines). The interrelation of the numbers 384 to 223 makes approximately 1.7 which is close to the mathematical expression of the golden section equaling 1.

618. On the whole there are 607В lines inВ this scene which is one and aВ half times as longer as the number ofВ the lines inВ the intensified action (384В lines). The relation ofВ the two numbers, i.e. 607В and 384В is close toВ 1.6.

One can state that the principle ofВ the golden section is traced inВ architecture, painting, poetry, music, as well as mathematics and the other areas ofВ the natural and human activity.