Bolgarskyy Dmytro Anatoliovich. Kiev-Pechersky Chant as the Church singing phenomenon of the Ukrainian culture. — Manuscript.
This Dissertation on the competition of a Scientific Degree of the Candidate of Art Criticism Sciences on Speciality No. 17.00.01: Theory and History of Culture.— Tchaikovskyy National Music Academy, Kyiv, 2002.
This Dissertation is devoted to the imparting of Kiev-Pechersky Chant as the Church singing phenomenon of the Ukrainian culture. The completion of the task in view was carried out via three projections as follows: historical, theological, philosophical, and liturgical. The historical aspect reveals the genesis, ways of development, factors of adaptation and canonisation of the Chant. It is necessary to consider the theological aspect as especially important since the object of research is inherently inseparable from the religious environment of its existence. The philosophical aspect is to construe the Chant on the part of the intrinsic qualities of the art of music. The “ustav-liturgical” part serves to open functional and dynamic qualities of the Chant as the basis of church God Service. As a whole the research of this Dissertation deals with the issues of heredity in the national musical culture actualising the specific features of the ethnic religious Weltanschauung of the Ukrainian people. For the first time ever the Church singing practice has been clarified as integral system of ritual, musical and mysterious act.
Keywords: Kiev-Pechersky Monastery, Spirituality, Church singing, Athos tradition, Chant, School of singing, God Service, Prayer, Angels’ voices, Canonisation, Eight tones singing, Monody, Polyphony, Mysteriousness.
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