Рукописна та книжкова спадщина України (Jan 2023)
Set of handwritten partbooks from Kyiv collection of parted music of 17th-18th centuries of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine
Abstract
Our work aims to investigate and to present the integral characteristic of the set of partbooks of the church hymn manuscripts that is a part of the Kyiv collection of the parted music and is saved in the Institute of Manuscript of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. The objectives of our study focus on clarifying the dating, revealing the structure and systematizing according to the scientific value, genre-stylistic and historical principles, to show the generalized typological characteristics of the set. Methodology. To investigate the features of the set of partbooks we used the scientific tools of historical musicology and musical source studies, codicology, bibliography, the method of classification and bibliographic analysis of sheet music manuscripts. Also, historical-comparative, chronological, source studies, textological and statistical methods were used. Due to these methods we managed to highlight the composition, content, structural features and informational potential of the set. Scientific novelty. We were the first to perform a complex codicological, paleographical and musical source studies analysis of one set of the parted music which is included in the Kyiv collection of the parted music of the 17th-18th centuries. We clarified the dating of the manuscript according to the conducted filigree analysis. Conclusions. Kyiv collection of the parted music of the 17th-18th centuries constitutes a significant part of the Ukrainian church music heritage and has a significant cultural, historical and scientific value. Our comprehensive codicological study and detailed analysis of the content of the largest set of partbooks showed a wide variety of different genres and styles represented in Ukrainian partes music. The amount of ecclesiastical musical works included in the manuscript is valuable not only as a part of the spiritual and musical heritage of Ukrainian choral art, but also for the involvement of a wider range of researchers in musicological and cultural studies of national spiritual music, that in future will contribute to a deeper understanding of its phenomenon.
