Khomus
Spiridon Shishigin, master player (visited and concertized at Harvard in 2009);
more information about him and the instrument: http://varganist.ru/53e.html.
Music Scores from the Catalog
- Tereebu̇t Alaaskyn Ėn Taptaa: Yryannʹyk byCall Number: Loeb Music Mus 546.79.5Publication Date: 2000Yakut words, with words printed separately as text following each song; Cyrillic.
- Muzyka Bastaky Oluktara: ėdėr pianistarga: u̇ȯrėtii bastaky ikki sylygar anallaakh kȯmȯ khomuurunnʹukCall Number: Loeb Music Harvard Depository Harvard Depository Mus 546.79Publication Date: 2001
Writings of Eduard Alekseyev
NOTE: This list is drawn from Grove Music Online (held at Harvard and elsewhere)
Writings
‘Yest′ li u yakutov mnogogolosiye?’ [Do the Yakuts have polyphony?], Sovetskaya Muzïka (1967), no.5, pp.97–105
‘Novoye v yakutskom muzïkal′nom fol′klore’ [New trends in Yakut musical folklore], Muzïka stran Azii i Afriki, ed. V.S. Vinagradov (Moscow, 1969)
Problemï formirovaniya lada: na materiale yakutskoy narodnoy pesni [Yakut Folk Song and the Genesis of Tonal Organization] (Moscow, 1976) [incl. Eng. summary]
Rannefol′klornoye intonirovaniye [Early folklore intonation] (Moscow, 1986) [incl. Eng. summary]
Fol′klor v kontekste sovremennoy kul′turï [Folklore in the context of contemporary culture] (Moscow, 1988) [incl. Eng. summary]
Notnaya zapis′ narodnoy muzïki [The notation of folk music] (Moscow, 1990) [incl. Eng. summary]
Folksong collections
with N. Nikolayeva: Obraztsï yakutskogo pesennogo fol′klora [Specimens of Yakut folklore in song] (Yakutsk, 1981)
Personal Website
Featured Rare and Unique Titles from the Catalog
- Eduard Alekseyev fieldwork collection of the musical culture of Yakutia, 1969-2009Call Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music V 11592 - 11597See electronic finding aid for Dr. Alekseyev's archival collection (streaming audio content available)
Featured Recordings from the Catalog (Selective)
- Iz i͡akutskogo Muzykalʹnogo FolʹkloraCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music LP 12077Publication Date: 1969Folk songs from Yakutia in the Eduard Alekseyev collection.
- Khomus Ut͡sbaan: Ėt͡suėkhė anyybyn [Yakutian khomus] byCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music CD 17099Series: Serii͡a muzyka khomusa (Trump) narodov mira, 1
- Performance by Yakut Musicians, Harvard University, November 24, 2009Call Number: Online only, click on title scroll down to contents list to stream audioPublication Date: 2009Spiridon Shishigin, Nikolay Shishigin, and Ivan Alexeev, lecturing and performing on the khomus (recorded live in Merritt Room, Loeb Music Library). Real Player must be installed on your computer to enable you to listen to the tracks.
- The Region of Rivers Lena and IndigirkaCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music CD 16420Publication Date: 2000Audio CDs from the Pushkinskii Dom Phonogram Archive (Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Songs & dances from Yakutía byCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music CD 17759Publication Date: 2000National Orchestra of the National Dance Theatre of the Republic of Sakha ; Nicolay Petrov, conductor
- Summer is Coming: the Art of the Jew's Harp and the Vocal Techniques of the Sakha (Yakut) People, Eastern SiberiaCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music CD 11172Publication Date: 2000Fedora Gogoleva, Albina Degtyaryova, and Olga Podluzhnaya, khomus (Jew's harp) and vocals.
- Tuva, Among the Spirits: Sound, Music and Nature in Sakha and TuvaCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music CD 13910Publication Date: 1999Available streaming online (Harvard access) from Smithsonian Global Sound: Click the green "online" icon.
- Yakoutie: Epopées et ImprovisationsCall Number: Loeb Music Archive of World Music CD 17315
Featured Books from the Catalog
- Dėgėrėn Yrya: Pesennai︠a︡ lirika i︠a︡kutov byCall Number: Widener Harvard Depository PL363.5 .L37 2000xPublication Date: 2000
- Muzykalʹnai︠a︡ Kulʹtura i︠a︡kutskogo Naroda byCall Number: Loeb Music Seeger Room Seeger Room ML3693.Y3 K7 1982Publication Date: 1982
- Pesennoe Tvorchestvo M.P. Kulʹbertinovoĭ byCall Number: Loeb Music Harvard Depository ML3680 .N55 2006ISBN: 5020304077Publication Date: 2006
- Stanovlenie i︠a︡kutskoĭ Professionalʹnoĭ Muzykalʹnoĭ Kulʹtury, 1920-1985 byCall Number: Harvard Depository Mus 194.362.50Publication Date: 1994
- Verbalʹnoe i Muzykalʹnoe v i︠a︡kutskom dʹiėrėtii yrya byCall Number: Widener Harvard Depository (Harvard users, click request)Publication Date: 2004