The non-ritual (not dedicated to calendar holidays or rituals) song is especially loved by the people. From fervent chastushka to cruel romance, from heartfelt lyrics to playing and comic songs and round dances - this is not a complete palette of genres of this vast area of musical folklore.
Lyrical songs, romances, couplets equally excite everyone and are understandable to anyone. It is not by chance that these songs are so loved by the people - the secret is in the nature of their content, which reveals the eternal themes: love, jealousy, betrayal, separation, death, repentance.
In the human heart, inexplicable, paradoxically, deep feelings and momentary passions, tragic forebodings and serene joy, happiness of reciprocity coexist with bitterness of loss, derision with disappointment, desperate determination with timidity and doubt.
All of this - the hypostasis of love, her face, her mask-masks, her ideal and diverse faces - and all of them are embodied in people's love lyrics - from chastushka to romance. Between these facets - a huge, infinite space and time of love.
