Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Formation of the Monastery Choir in Russia in the 16th‑17th Centuries (Using the Example of the Joseph‑Volokolamsk Monastery)

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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (7)
Authors
Parfentiev, Nikolai P.; Parfentieva, Natalia V.
Contact information
Parfentiev, Nikolai P. : South Ural State University Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000‐0001‐6982‐6554; Parfentieva, Natalia V. : South Ural State University Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation; ORCID: 0000‐0003‐1136‐0493
Keywords
Old Russian church singing art; monastery choirs; author’s creativity; Joseph-Volokolamsky monastery
Abstract

Old Russian monasteries were the important centers of professional musical culture, which developed as a result of the activities of masters of church choral art. Documentary sources have brought to us information about how the formation of the choirs took place, how monastery singers and their leaders (choir directors, choir conductors) performed their duties, as well as what were the features of their material maintenance. It turned out that large monasteries constantly experienced a shortage of singers, so in the life of choir members it became common for them to move from one monastery to another to serve on a short-term basis. The rare completeness of preservation of the documents of the Ioseph-Volokolamsky monastery makes it possible to reconstruct the picture of this phenomenon for some periods of the 16th-17th centuries. In the article, the authors also come to the conclusion that the state and development of church singing art in this monastery, where the orientation towards “Moscow singing” was decisive, suggests that the creative traditions of other monasteries in Russia developed in a similar way in close connection with one or the other large regional singing centers. Overtime, priceless artworks are created here. Among them, musical works also occupy a special place

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1286–1295
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TUQDIZ
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/153221

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