Abstract
The most widespread song genre of the national musical culture was initially divided into regions, formed by local musical moonshine, and then continued and developed in colloquial speech. In the Russian musicological field, the study of this genre in various aspects continues to this day. The vitality, variability of local lyrical songs, characteristic local musical and stylistic features of the region, continuity between ritual and author's lyrical works of this region determine the main purpose of the article: musical features, range and harmony, etc. In accordance with this goal, the article reflects the complex focus of research among the internal conditional periodic types of the genre (ritual, folk, oral and professional). The results achieved in order to identify intertemporal continuity can be used in scientific research, performing arts, demonstrating scientific and practical significance. The approaches of complex and comparative historical and theoretical analysis are applied on the basis of fundamental scientific works studied by domestic scientists in the genre of conversational and professional regional songs. Formulating the study, the local genre features of the songs of Zhylyoi, which have developed between the two largest performing schools in the Western region, were determined both by the names of the songs and by musical and theoretical characteristics.