Musicology Annotation << Back Finno-ugric ethnomusical systems: to the problem of the polyphony of the monodic cultures Svetlana V. Kosyreva The article covers the problems associated with the study of the specifi city of the Finno-Ugric ethnomusical systems and the peculiarities of the musical thinking of the Uralic language group peoples. One of the serious scientifi c problems in ethnomusicology, the problem of the polyphony of the monodic cultures, is brought up to date. Despite the fact that there is now a significant number of the scientific investigations dedicated to the musical traditions of the Finno-Ugric peoples, the problems of the systematic study of the sounding intonational cultures’ musical language are not fully developed. There are no studies that directly cover the typology of the musical thinking of ethnic groups. All this does not allow forming a holistic impression of the Finno-Ugric ethnomusical cultures as music systems. The author offers a complex interdisciplinary methodological approach with the use of computer tools and musical acoustics data. The research is carried out within the framework of the scientifi c project approved by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (project №16-14-10003). For the fi rst time in global science, acoustic measurements of voice, vocal and instrumental sounds from different genres of the musical folklore of the Finno-Ugric peoples are conducted. On the basis of the acoustic-phonological analysis of the musical language elements of the joiks’ intonational forms of the Sami and the Karelians, the improvisatory prichet (lamentation) forms of the Vepsians and the Karelians, the improvisatory forms of the Izhma Komi and others, an electronic database of the Finno-Ugric timbres is formed. Keywords: musical Finno-Ugric studies, Finno-Ugric ethnomusical systems, heterophony, polyphony in monody. Contacts: E-mail: svetlana.kosyreva@glazunovcons.ru Pp. 16-21.