- 1. Twin-bar tunes (ex.1-11, №1-58)
- Twin-bar tunes based on the g,-c bichord
- Twin-bar tunes based on rotating motifs
- Twin-bar tunes with descending/hill-shaped lines
- Motifs with a downward leap at the end of the line
- Motivic processes
- 2. Tunes moving on Ionian scales (ex.12-24, №59-164))
- Laments and their relatives
- Two-lined tunes of Major character with higher main cadences and their four-lined relatives
- Four-lined tunes of Major character
- 3. Aeolian tunes (ex.25-36, №165-238)
- Laments and related tunes
- Aeolian tunes with higher main cadence
- Four-lined tunes of Minor character
- Valley-shaped, ascending or undulating first line
- 4. Caramazan religious tunes (ex.37-41, №239-326)
- 5. Tunes of domed structure (ex.42-43, №327-332)
5.1. Domed Aeolian tunes (ex.42, №327-329)
The cadences of these tunes are mostly 1 (5) 5/4 and the end of their third line is high-pitched (№327-329). The second lines may be variants of the first with a higher cadence (ex.42a), or may move in a higher register in general (ex.42b). The latter is rarer, widely deviating from the Kyrgyz folksongs on the whole but closely resembling e.g. the tunes of the Hungarian new folksong style.
a)
1 ex.42a, Song about life, Kasımkulova Ayım (1941, Beş Taş), Sarımsak, Üç-Emçek, 2004; ex.42b, Lament (Koşok), Tartakova Kadırbübü (1934, Kara-Tal), Çerik-Kodoo-Toru, 1- May (Boğoştu), 2002