PALAEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE “ALPHABET OF SINGING” FROM THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF THE 16th CENTURY
The purpose of the work is the palaeographic analysis of the alphabet of singing from the manuscript collection of the 16th century and revealing of the characteristic features of its formation. The research methodology includes the system analysis, which promoted the comprehension of manuscript sin...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts
2020-07-01
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Series: | Вісник КНУКіМ: Серія Мистецтвознавство |
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Online Access: | http://arts-series-knukim.pp.ua/article/view/207641 |
Summary: | The purpose of the work is the palaeographic analysis of the alphabet of singing from the manuscript collection of the
16th century and revealing of the characteristic features of its formation. The research methodology includes the system
analysis, which promoted the comprehension of manuscript singing alphabet lists. For the determination of temporal
and quantitative characteristics of the studied material statistical and chronological methods were used. The comparative
analysis made it possible to establish the logical regularities of alphabet lists formation. The importance of the publication
is connected with a growing interest to the musical heritage of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The urgent issue is the
fundamental research of the collections of liturgical singing, which are deteriorating from year to year and the risk to
loose the valuable material is increasing. The research novelty is determined by the fact that the singing alphabet from
the manuscript of the 16th century was analysed, its palaeographic description and comparative analysis of neume signs
were carried out. Conclusions. The palaeographic analysis of the singing alphabet made it possible to identify common
features in the formation of neume signs. Certain differences with other alphabets in similar manuscript collections are
also determined. Neume signs were introduced into alphabet in accordance with their use during the singing practice.
As a rule, the signs, which were considered the most important in the performance of church chant, were introduced into
the alphabet. The most of the singing alphabet of the 15–17 centuries despite certain differences are very similar in the
composition of neume signs. The distribution of neume signs into four groups was performed in the following way: from
the simplest that have no subvariants to compound that are divided into groups and subgroups. The question of decoding of
the neume notation that goes with liturgical texts is left unsolved. It is possible to solve this problem by combining efforts
of Ukrainian medieval scholars and active cooperation with scientists of the Western European countries. |
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ISSN: | 2410-1176 2616-4183 |