- Karachay folk music
- Special tunes
- The classes of Karachay folk music
- Class 1: Rotating and plagal motion (№ 1−8)
- Class 2: One or two short lines and their variations with x(1)1 cadences (№ 9-37)
- Class 3: Four short lines with (1) main cadence (№ 38-53)
- Class 4: Four short lines with the first line ending on the key note, with a (pseudo) domed structure and 1(x)y cadences (№ 54−62)
- Class 5: Four short lines with (VII) main cadence (№ 63−70)
- Class 6: Four short lines with (2) and (b3) main cadences (№ 71−105)
- Class 7: Four short lines with (4/5) main cadences (№ 106−115)
- Class 8: Four short lines with (4/5) main cadence and a higher beginning (№ 116−138)
- Class 9: Four short lines with (7/8) main cadences (№ 139−145)
- Class 10: One- or two-lined tripodic tunes (№ 146–186)
- Class 11: Tunes with four tripodic lines (№ 187–199)
- Class 12: Jir tunes (№ 200–278)
- Class 13: Four long lines with arched (domed) structure (№ 279–287)
- Connections between Hungarian and Karachay folk music
Time signatures
It is a sign of the archaic character of the material that rubato, parlando performance can quite often be heard, and there are often changing time signatures, which is also an indicative of a more liberal performance. Nearly the other half of the material is performed tempo giusto, largely predominated by 2/4 time, with more or less equal rates of 4/4, 5/8 and 6/8 times also found.
Tempo giusto performance with fixed time signature (196): 2/4 (139 tunes), 4/4 (18), 5/8 (18), 6/8 (18), 5/4 (1) as well as 7/8 (1 tune) and 9/8 (1).
Free performing style or changing meter (240):
Giusto with changing time, mainly 2/4 and 3/4 basis (17 tunes): Jir, mostly with changing time (95 tunes), poco rubato (37) and a few parlando.
The following table gives a detailed overview.
Giusto performance in a fixed meter
2/4 (139 tunes) Ex.1, Ex.2.1b, Ex.2.2, Ex.2.3b, Ex.2.4b, Ex.3.3b, Ex.4.1, Ex.5.1, Ex.5.2, Ex.6.3, Ex.6.4, Ex.6.7, Ex.7.1, Ex.7.2, Ex.7.3, Ex.7.4,
Ex.8.1a, Ex.8.1b, Ex.8.2b, Ex.8.3a, Ex.8.3b, Ex.8.4, Ex.8.6, Ex.9.1, Ex.11.5, № 1–5, № 8–9, № 11–12, № 14–15, № 17–26, № 28–29, № 33–34, № 38–40, № 42, № 44–45, № 47–49, № 51–55, № 57–63, № 66–68, № 71–76, № 81–82, № 84, № 90–91, № 93, № 95–96, № 103–104, № 107–108, № 110–112, № 114, № 116–117, № 119–126, № 129–132, № 134–137, № 140, № 147, № 149, № 156–157, № 159, № 164, № 173, № 180–183, № 185, № 191–196, № 279, № 282–283, № 284, № 286–287.
5/4 № 179.
5/8 (19 tunes) Ex.3.1, Ex.3.2, Ex.3.3a, Ex.6.2, Ex.6.5, Ex.8.5, Ex.11.1, № 10, № 35, № 79, № 85, № 86, № 97, № 98, № 155, № 162, № 178, № 187, № 198.
6/8 (17 tunes) Ex.4.3, Ex.6.1, Ex.7.5, Ex.9.2, Ex.13, № 13, № 56, № 70, № 78, № 88, № 89, № 101, № 106, № 109, № 113, № 127, № 133, № 138–139, № 141, № 143–146, № 158, № 281, № 285.
4/4 (18 tunes) Ex.4.4, Ex.8.2a, Ex.10.5a, № 6, № 7, № 30, № 36–37, № 46, № 50, № 64–65, № 77, № 80, № 83, № 87, № 128, № 280.
9/8 Ex.6.6.
Parlando performance and changing time
Giusto with changing meter 2/4 and 3/4 (17 tunes): Ex.2.1a and № 27; 2/4 and 7/4: № 16; 3/4 and 2/4: № 142; 3/4 and 4/4: № 41; 4/4 and 5/4: № 118; 5/8 and 2/4: Ex.2.5 and № 31; 5/8 and 6/8: № 32 and № 92; 5/8 and 3/4: № 69; 6/8 and 2/4: Ex.2.4a and № 43; 6/8 and 5/8: Ex.2.3a; 6/8 and 7/8: № 172; 6/8 and 9/8: № 188 and № 199.
Jir (mostly in changing time and poco rubato performance – 95 tunes) Ex.12.01, Ex.12.02, Ex.12.03a, Ex.12.03b, Ex.12.04a, Ex.12.04b, Ex.12.05a, Ex.12.05b, Ex.12.6a, Ex.12.6b, Ex.12.7a, Ex.12.7b, Ex.12.8a, Ex.12.8b, Ex.12.9a, Ex.12.9b, № 200–278.
Rubato (37 tunes) Ex.4.2, Ex.10.1, Ex.10.2, Ex.10.3, Ex.10.4, Ex.10.5b, Ex.11.2, Ex.11.3, № 99, № 100, № 102, № 105, № 115, № 148, № 150–154, № 160–161, № 163, № 165–171, № 174–177, № 184, № 186, № 189, № 197.
Parlando № 190.