"Musiqi dünyası" Vol.27 № 3 (104) 2025

30.09.2025

Article №1; 8-31 pages.
Saitanov I.V. Həcmli görmə: “gəzən melodiyalara” yeni baxış
Сайтанов И. В. Объёмное зрение: новый взгляд на «блуждающие мелодии»
Saitanov I. V. Volumetric Vision: A New Look at "Wandering Melodies"

http://doi.org/10.65058/DVME3099

ILYA  SAITANOV 
Independent researcher
Russia Federation
E-mail: sajtanov@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4497-4670

Bakı: Musiqi dünyası. Beynəlxalq Elmi
Musiqi Jurnalı, – 2025.Vol.27/№3 (104), s. 8-31

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Keywords:
wandering melodies, multi-perspective vision, stereo-object, ethnomusicology, musical tradition, intercultural relations, melodic versions, tune family, folklore
Abstract
The article proposes the concept of volumetric (multi-perspective) vision applied to the study of a single melody as it exists across several national traditions and takes on various genre forms. This concept is developed as an alternative to those approaches that assume the identification of a prototype or the establishment of borrowing directions. The author regards the set of realizations of a single melody across various traditions as a single stereo-object. Such a view allows us to view each version of the melody as an adjacent facet of a polyhedron, shaping an integral perception of the musical material.  The example of the melody known in the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition as the melody of the song "Geyt a yold in kapelyush" («There goes a dupe in a hat»), and in the Ukrainian tradition as the melody of the dance "Karapet" illustrates how such a stereo-object can be formed and studied. The proposed model facilitates a neutral description of cultural interactions, avoiding the use of terms such as 'original' and 'copy'. The concept has the potential for interdisciplinary application and opens new aesthetic possibilities in ethnomusicological research.