Characteristic features of cult orthodox singing music performance in Ukraine

Abstract

The article examines the cult singing music of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, from the point of view of interpreting its characteristic features, literally on the entire perimeter of the phenomenon's materiality.

First of all, within the framework of the specified research direction, the author of the article turns to a typical analysis of the specifics of the literary and poetic segment of church music-making in its multi-genre (hymns, psalms, antiphons, tropars, kondaks, canons, stichira, etc.) self-expression.

The next set of presented arguments is aimed at tracing the effective mechanisms of the metamorphosis of the sacred poetics of the studied phenomenon to the level of its proper musical and aesthetic expression.

Summarizing the presented considerations, the author of the publication argues that the specificity of the characteristic features of the cult singing music-making of Ukrainian Orthodoxy is reduced to the content of the artistic imagery of the phenomenon, built by the logic of the syncretic interaction of the literary and poetic component of the phenomenon under study with the progressiveness of its musical self-expression, as a result of which church cult chants are transformed to the level of their own attractiveness, giving rise to recipient of a feeling of indescribable joy, triumph, unquestioning faith in the sung, as well as catharsis, as a special and highest form of tragedy, in which the emotion of shock that accompanies it does not oppress this recipient of information with its doom, but «cleanses» and «enlightens» him. It is this feature of the artistic imagery of the cult Orthodox singing music-making that contributes to the progressive reproducibility of more and more new sacred-artistic cult ritual schemes, enriched with these chara... .