Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2009 2 (2)

Authors

Parfentjev, Nikolaj P.

Contact information

Nikolaj P. Parfentjev: South-Ural State University, 76 Lenin’s pr., Chelyabinsk, 454080 Russia, e-mail:

Keywords

the theory of Ancient-Russian musical art; creativity of masters-melodos; neumes and neumatic formulas alphabets; methods of chant decoding

Abstract

The researchers carried out the theoretical studying of creative processes in the Ancient-Russian musical art and connected to it decoding (translation into the modern stuff notation) and the analysis of its products (chants) without taking into account their accessory to this or that regional school that can not give enough exact results of research. The ancient manuscripts testify, that at the identical tracing many complex musical marks-neumes (znamena’s) in the different areas of medieval Russia had the various maintenance – divorce (razvod’s), and it is necessary for taking into account at the research of products. Starting the studying the outstanding ancient Russian master’s creativity, the first of all it is necessary to collect together their author’s divorces of melodic formulas and of the the complex marks-neumes, scattered on numerous manuscripts. It is necessary to systematize these divorces, to define the author’s features, having compared to the other divorces and then to take into account the given features at the analysis chants. Data of these materials in the special tables representing musical-intonational alphabets of the masters (schools), create a basis for more exact decode and the analysis of the products of the ancient-Russian musical art, research of the theory of this art and the creative processes happened in it as a whole.

Pages

163-168

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/917

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