Musical and dramatic structure of Russian wedding tradition in the Samara river area

The article covers the main principles of musical and dramatic structure of the Russian wedding ceremony in the Samara river area. It is shown that semantics of the ceremonial musical dramaturgy is developed by means of peculiarities of the poetical content and symbols of poetical forms, song belongings to one of the forms of ceremonial, the influence of all-Russian or local ceremonial traditions on placenames genre.