SYNCHRETIC PERFORMANCE Concerning the Relationship between Words and Tunes in Performance of Oral Lyric Poems

It is a well known fact that written culture suppressed oral culture in the historical process, but often in such a way that oral creations were also written down (and not simply rejected). So it is that it happened that the manner of notation adapted to the needs of the written media was in fact built into the texts of oral poems. For that reason, the history of oral lyrics together with the overall history of oral literature cannot be separated from the history of its notation; consequently, the history of notation is much more significant that it may appear at first glance, because it encompasses the relationship towards oral lyrics, a composite part of oral