Number DOI: https://doi.org/10.33209/2519-4348-2018-6-219-230

VB. – № 6, 2018. – P. 219-230

Summary

The article attempts to investigate non-liturgical religious-song genres: chants, psalms, spiritual poems; spiritual songs. Due to the lack of historical musicological remembrance of the period of the Kievan Rus’, the Volyn-Galitzian Principality makes it impossible to state with certainty the time of origin of these genres. The period of flowering of these non-liturgical spiritual songs, especially chants and psalms, dates back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, about what is described in this work. The issue of authorship of the spiritual texts of this period is highlighted. Also, it is considered the most significant remembrance of the topic under study, the anthology of the Ukrainian spiritual chant – The “Bogoglasnik” of Pochaiyv, which reflects the general tendency of the Ukrainian musical art development in the second half of the XVIII century. It is partly indicated, the influence of chants on other genres of Ukrainian music, especially in spiritual music. Examples are given, of the use of chants and psalms by classical artists of the XIX-XX centuries in their professional creativity. An attempt has been made to systematize the themes of chants and psalms. The list of the most famous musicology works on this topic is given. A comparative analysis of the most common genres – chants and psalms – has been made, on the basis of which we can assert that, despite the stylistic and thematic similarities, chants and psalms are phenomena of different levels. Also, the trim structure of these genres is indicated. The problem of genre-stylistic definitions is considered. The proliferation of these non-liturgical spiritual songs beyond the space of Church (folklore, amateur, and professional), the confusion with terms and constant violation of the “genre boundaries”, the absence of a substantiated definition of each of the terms by the researchers that complicates the problem of genre-stylistic definitions. But each of the terms has a fairly clear sphere of distribution, due to different ethnic traditions. It is also mentioned, the place of the studied churches in the life of a Christian, and the spiritual need of these.

Key words: Chants, psalms, non-liturgical, “Bogoglasnik”, genre.

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