Musicology Annotation << Back Wedding Lamentations of Belomorye in the Context of the Russian North Culture’s Study Eugenia Reznichenko This article focuces on the specific nature of wedding lamentations as one as the little-known regional traditions in the context of Russian North folk culture’s study. The traditional picture of the world, reflected in the ritual of Pomorye, the role of wedding lamentations in a local folk culture and some peculiarities of cryings with their poetics and musical language are considered here. A lot of features inherent the tradition of Belomorye’s wedding lamentations are also typical for Russian North’s ritual in general. However, some elements of poetic and musical language of local lamentations are very original ones. For example, Pomorye’s lamentations are of particular interest as a material for the development as problem as structural typology of Russian North group lamentations’ tunes. Now we can state, on the one hand, obvious heterogeneity of the material, on the other — lots of unique or rare structural types of lamentations in the local wedding. Keywords: Pomorye, Russian North, folk music, regional researches, wedding lamentations. Contacts: E-mail: ReznichenkoE@yandex.ru Pp. 11-17.