Musicology Annotation << Back Noise Instruments in Female Music Performance (On Mordovian Traditional Music Material) Larissa N. Zybkina The tradition of female vocal and vocal/instrumental performance with usage of noise instruments, including instruments of labour and household tools, is an original phenomenon of Mordovian traditional musical culture. The most archaic forms of female instrumental music performance probably originated from magic rites with strict sex differentiation practiced the past. Author in the study of noise tools complex lean on the system-etnofonichesky method (J. Maciejewski). This method presuppouse a close synchronous learning of tool and music performed on it. Keywords: Mordovian traditional music, noise instruments, female music performance. E-mail: ila-autentica@mail.ru. Pp. 36-41