Church Song Books as the Main Educational and Methodological Music Guide of the XVIIth – XVIIIth Centuries

Authors

  • V. Bilichenko Канівський коледж культури і мистецтв Уманського державного педагогічного університету імені Павла Тичини, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6360-4184

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35433/pedagogy.4(86).2016.13-17

Keywords:

note linear music books, musical education investigation, valuable information, church singing, eight-voiced vocal

Abstract

The question of the appearance, distribution and active use in the Ukrainian liturgical practice of the XVIIth – XVIIIth centuries of sheet music, handwritten and printed song books is relevant because of its connection with the historical process of development and flourishing of monosinging, a cappella and church singing in Ukraine. Due to the deep and fundamental analysis of archives, historical, pedagogical and musicological resources, the use of the problematical, purposeful and comparative methods of investigation was proved that sheet music song books accumulate countries-old theoretical and practical experience of performing of everyday and holiday psalms. Complex and integral approach to the object of investigation helps to testify to the fact that at the end of the XVIIth and the beginning of the XVIIIth centuries the process of gradual unification of song books took place.

They began to get used to psalms which were popular and widely-accepted in church vocal and choir singing. It is grounded that the main centres of developing of such Ukrainian music art as hymn singing were leading cultural and educational state establishments – Kyiv, Lviv, Ostroh, Starodub, Chernihiv. It is stressed that music books were the first note printed books appeared on the lands of the east Slavs and foreseen the eight-voiced vocal construction that means systematization of singing using eight voices according to the church calendar.

Their active popularization and utilization greatly quickened the process of reformation of note linear notation, coming into being and development of professionalization of musical education. In the middle of the XVIIIth century note vocal music books made considerable part of so-called ''Kiev'' linear writing in which ''hard style'' of notation is replaced by the ''light style'' that is more contemporary. They naturally became the main educational, methodological and musical guides. These initial investigations are sure to help in further clarifying this problem in periodicals as well as enrich the content of art training of specialists in this field with new and valuable information.

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Published

2016-12-21