Musicology Annotation << Back Funeral and Memorial Lamentations of Vologda Region: History of Collecting and Studying Svetlana Baluevskaya The article is devoted to historiography of funeral and memorial lamentations of Vologda region. Based on textual analysis of publications of folklore-ethnographic materials, the author reveals the problems of genre attribution, complex representation forms of lamentations with their contextual and functional components, dialect-style specific. Particular attention is given to the publication containing musical samples of Vologda funeral and memorial lamentations. The examples of auditory notations are given from the collections of late XIXth — early XXth centuries (F.M. Istomin — S.M. Lyapunov, F.N. Lagovsky, O.H. Agreneva-Slavyanskaya, V.N. Tenishev’s «Ethnographic Bureau»). We present brief analytical review of researches on this subject, published in the second half of XXth — the beginning of XXIth centuries. In general, the author determines the degree of scrutiny of subject in publishing practice, suggests a need for further researches to full areal scientific description traditions of lamentations of the Vologda region. Keywords: historiography, funeral and memorial lamentations, collections of folklore and ethnographic materials, folk traditions of Vologda region, areal studies of folklore phenomena. Contacts: E-mail: baluevskaya@list.ru Pp. 22-39.