Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: The Condition of Old Russian Musical Art by the Middle of the 17th Century and the Prerequisites for its Reforming

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Condition of Old Russian Musical Art by the Middle of the 17th Century and the Prerequisites for its Reforming

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017 10 (7)
Authors: Parfentiev, Nicolai P.
Contact information: Parfentiev, Nicolai P.: Southern-Ural State University 76 Lenin, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia;
Keywords: old Russian church chanting art; razdelnorechie; mnogoglasie; preconditions of musical reform
Abstract: Evolutionary processes in the state and social system of Russia in the second half of the 17th century accelerated the breakdown of the traditional worldview. The process of deep stylistic changes in Old Russian professional musical art began to be realized. The dominance of a number of negative phenomena, formed over several centuries, led to the awareness of the society itself of the need to carry out urgent corrections. These phenomena were the following: diversity in singing of the neumatic signs of notation by the masters of different regional schools, “razdelnorechie” (homony) as a specific manner of singing of verbal texts in the chants, “mnogoglasie” as a simultaneous performance of different parts of the church services. Under these conditions, there appeared the works, which not only called for the elimination of the accumulated “disorganizations” (negative phenomena) and acceleration of the musical reform, but also tried to disclose the causes of the emergence of disorganizations and indicate the ways of their correction
Pages: 1025-1031
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/33656

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