Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Reflection of the Main Directions Didaskal Feodor Krest’ianin’s Creative Activity in Monuments of Writing XVI–XVII Centuries

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (10)
Authors
Parfentiev, Nicolai P.
Contact information
Parfentiev, Nicolai P.:Southern-Ural State University, 76 Lenin’s, Cheliabinsk, 454080 Russia;E-mail:
Keywords
medieval music; ancient (old) Russian musical – written chanting art; data on theory and activity of chanting masters; author’s creativity; Feodor Krest’ianin
Abstract

Sources indicate that Feodor Krest’ianin was one of the most outstanding representatives of professional musical art of Russia XVI – the beginnings XVII centuries. It is no mere chance that the Russian tsars, starting from Ivan the Terrible, entrusted him with teaching and looking after their singing diaki, members of the Sovereign’s court choir. Records made by one of the singers (Anonymous Diak) can reveal the very essence of Feodor Krest’ianin’s mastery of creating his own chants and “razvods” (explanations by writing simple neumatic signs the melody lines of complicated ciphered (closely code) neuma formulae inscriptions) in terms of canonical art as well as it can allow to present some of the didascalos’ teaching techniques. Active work to create razvods of compound neumes, formulas and «the wise lines» is a special kind of creativity and the emerging theory of individual authorship. Without the restoration of a theory and its application in the analysis of author’sabout chants it is impossible to get correct conclusions about the originality of the works of leading great masters of Russian medieval music. The article describes a method of reconstruction of such theory and presenting it in the form of musical ABC of Feodor Krest’ianin

Pages
1423-1432
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10029

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