Figurative-Compositional Ornamentality of Sudak Song in the Émigré Folklore of Crimean Tatars

Laconic songs, describing with the picturesque expressiveness and aphorismic clearness the sadness of parting with the motherland, became really wide-spread in the émigré folklore of Crimean Tatars. Compositional sophistication, emotional expressiveness are characteristic for these songs. They are notable for the touching lyricism, connected with the fact that exactly these songs are mainly about the parting with the loved ones: parents, friends, beloved girl. Fixed in several variants, Sudak tyurkyusi (Sudak Song) belongs to such folklore compositions. This song deals with the complicated dramatic relationships of two lovers who have to part. We can only guess what makes their relationships so complicated, but it is rather definitely mentioned that nobody could help the fatal influence of external factors. As well as difficult relationships of the lovers, bitterness and harm of adverse circumstances are clearly accented. The analyzed song has a certain lightness characteristic of the folklore style manner, even some playfulness, which effectively contrasts with the deep dramatic quality. The transfer of subtle, barely perceptible psychological nuances, emotional saturation are connected with the sophisticated oriental ornamentality, intensified by the eloquent, albeit unobtrusive, poetic parallelisms, as well as rhythmic and euphonic peculiarities of poetic description.