Murashova N.S. —
Musical Style Features of Spiritual Verses (Based on the Example of the Repertoire of the Old Believers of Rudny Altai)
// Culture and Art. – 2017. – ¹ 10.
– P. 88 - 109.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2017.10.24425
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/camag/article_24425.html
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Abstract: The subject of the research is the musical style features of Old Believers' spiritual verses that are understudied as a result of their complex genesis and variety of genres. The purpose of this research is to define reasons, conditions and factors that unite compositions of different musical styles into a single genre. In her research Murashova analyzes written and verbal verses and defines how kryuki notations can be used in composing hums of repentant verses, folklore memorials and songs composed in a 'romance' style. By analyzing melodic features of verses from the repertoire of Old Believers of Rudny Altai Murashova has discovered regional features thereof at the levels of rhythmic and pitch composition of verses. At the same time, the author of the article has defined typological principles of musical styles of spiritual verses as a complex genre system. The research is based on the complex approach that combines methods of medieval studies, folklore studies and other branches of music and culture studies. Written verses are studied from the point of view of using kryuki notations to fix texts that have been created in different time periods and have a different influence of neumanna hums on their style. Verbal verses are analyzed taking into account the mutual interaction between verbal and written channels of artistic communication. Connecting liturgical service and folk song, spiritual verses combine all components of Old Believers' musical culture into a single system. A determing feature of this system is polystylistic nature. Using intonation patterns developed by other genres, spritiual verses accumulates typical types of national intonation: ritual lamentation, tale, locomotor and cantilena. Stylistic flexibility allows spiritual verses to adapt to the socio-cultural situation and environment in different historical periods, at the same time spiritual verses have always remained a conductor of Christian values and a means of cultural identification of Old Believers.