Профессионально-музыкальное искусство в русском средневековом городе (XVI—XVII вв .)

Nikolai Pavlovich Parfentjev

doi:10.14529/hum150412

Authors

Nikolai Pavlovich Parfentjev South Ural State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14529/hum150412

Keywords:

Old Russian church art of singing, hierarchs’ singing diaki and podiaki, private choirs of the feudal aristocracy, circulation of znamenny (neumatic) chanting, musical works of masters’ authorship

Abstract

The development of Russian church music in 16th — 17th centuries as a high professional musical art had an important place in the spiritual culture of Russian cities. The author describes the activities of large choirs, existence of the chanting (znamenniy) art in wide urban environment. Also the researcher presents the local chant raspevschiki’s (composers) works of authorship. They reflected the regional musical traditions. These masters were representatives of different social strata. All this is done on the basis of the documents.