title: Regional Aspects of Poetic System and Repertoire Typology of Estonian Runosongs
reg no: ETF5784
project type: Estonian Science Foundation research grant
subject: 6.4. Folklore
status: accepted
institution: TU Faculty of Philosophy
head of project: Paul Hagu
duration: 01.01.2004 - 31.12.2007
description: 1. The output results of the project in the study of the language and poetics of runosongs will be scientific articles and given presentations at conferences.

2. Within the project will be aimed to organise 2 international conferences. One in autumn 2004, to mark the centenary of the publication of the first volume of J. Hurt's Setu Songs, and to discuss the theoretical problems of typologisation and publication of runosongs according to modern approaches. In 2006, an interdisciplinary international conference will be organised to discuss regional aspects of the runosong as a poetical system, and the local distinctive features of the repertoire typology and image system of the runosong.

3. The proceedings of both conferences will be published in 2005 and in 2007.

4. Among of the applicative output of the project will be the compilation and publication of Leeloanthology (an anthology of Setu folk songs in three volumes). From a massive corpus of setu runosongs, collected after J. Hurt, in the Leeloanthology every runosong type must be represented with it's best version.

project group
no name institution position  
1.Paul HaguTU Faculty of Philosophydocent 
2.Mari SarvEesti Kirjandus-muuseumteadur