Genre the style of the southern Russian round dance songs

The article is devoted to topical issues of ethnomusic knowledge associated with the genre attribution of folk song creativity. This problem is of particular importance in the study of secondary song systems, to which the South Russian musical culture belongs. In terms of music and style, this region is characterized by a colorful genre painting. The analytical review of the researches devoted to the Russian round dance allowed the authors to select the most stable genre criteria and to correlate them with the structural features of the South Russian round dances. The expedition materials , author's transcripts and analytical data presented in the work allow to characterize the folk music culture of the South of Russia in a new light.