Musicology Annotation << Back Regularities of temporal organization of Mansi instrumental tunes Galina Ye. Soldatova The article is devoted to the instrumental tunes the zither sankvyltap, an unique phenomenon of Mansi musical culture. The research is based on musical notation of instrumental tunes recorded during some expeditions with the author’s participation since the late 1980s to early 2000s. For the fi rst time in the musical ugristics the author proposes the approach to the analysis of temporal organization of Mansi tunes and presents the results of this analysis. Temporal organization means a rhythmic structuring and architectonics in their indissoluble unity associated with the development of the music material during the playing. The analysis algorithm is described in detail on the example of one instrumental tune of the Bear-feast. Then presented the conclusions obtained from the analysis of all notations. Three levels of the temporal organization (rhythmic formula – line – tirade) are indefi ned, a relationship between the thematic subgroups of melodies and using rhythmic formula is found. Semantic link is defi ned the most clearly between ritual mythological tunes - on the one hand, and formulas containing dotted rhythm, short duration on the fi rst beat, as well as three- and fi ve-beat formula – on the other. Keywords: Mansi, musical instruments, the zither, tunes, a temporal organization, ethnomusicological analysis. Contacts: E-mail: g.soldatova@ngs.ru Pp. 26-35.