Music intonation and articulation in performing culture of Verkhny Don Cossacks

There is covered the issue of performing culture of Don Cossacks with the signs of dialectal, articulation specificity that influence the process of sounding. There are analyzed the expressive means of Don songs, its intonation structure, peculiarities of vocalism and consonants of Don Cossacks dialects. There are suggested the examples that give the idea of some specific features of Don singing phonation