TRANSFORMATION OF THE ETHNIC BEGINNING IN THE RELIGIOUS MUSIC CULTURE
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Information about authors: Egle Lyudmila Yuryevna, PhD of Culturology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Musicology and Applied Musical Arts, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: legle@mail.ru Bazhina Anastasiya Sergeevna, Instructor of Department of Conducting and Academic Singing, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: asyabazh@mail.ru
Annotation: Despite the close socio-cultural interaction of Lutherans (Germans, Finns, Swedes, Estonians, Latvians) living in Russia for several centuries, we can still observe today the manifestation of the “ethnicity” of their religion, expressed in musical culture, national ritual, mental features. The erosion of religious boundaries in recent years in the field of the music-religious culture of the Russian Germans of the Lutheran religion proves the relevance of this study. At the beginning of the 21stcentury, the German Lutheran communities commit worship not only in German, but also in Russian. During the liturgy, bilingual compilations are used, newly completed in the 1970-1980s. The performance of chants translated from German cannot but affect the melodic line, there is also a shift in musical accents due to the need to use poetic translation, and not literal. Chorales are taken from different traditions, not only of the Gospel churches but also of the Orthodox. The main factors for the transformation of musical religious traditions include the destruction of the mono-confessional German settlements, anti-religious policy of the Soviet State, lack of religious education, reduction in the number of parishioners, loss of the national language, and use of various musical material in the service. The transformation of culture as a holistic, translational-transformative process, which aims at modifying culture through the introduction of foreign elements into it violates its usual rhythm, always sets a new vector of cultural development that requires in-depth understanding.
Keywords: transformation, cultural boundaries, Lutheranism, Russian Germans, Kemerovo region, Lutheran chants, chorales, religious associations.
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Information about authors: Egle Lyudmila Yuryevna, PhD of Culturology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Musicology and Applied Musical Arts, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: legle@mail.ru Bazhina Anastasiya Sergeevna, Instructor of Department of Conducting and Academic Singing, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: asyabazh@mail.ru
Annotation: Despite the close socio-cultural interaction of Lutherans (Germans, Finns, Swedes, Estonians, Latvians) living in Russia for several centuries, we can still observe today the manifestation of the “ethnicity” of their religion, expressed in musical culture, national ritual, mental features. The erosion of religious boundaries in recent years in the field of the music-religious culture of the Russian Germans of the Lutheran religion proves the relevance of this study. At the beginning of the 21stcentury, the German Lutheran communities commit worship not only in German, but also in Russian. During the liturgy, bilingual compilations are used, newly completed in the 1970-1980s. The performance of chants translated from German cannot but affect the melodic line, there is also a shift in musical accents due to the need to use poetic translation, and not literal. Chorales are taken from different traditions, not only of the Gospel churches but also of the Orthodox. The main factors for the transformation of musical religious traditions include the destruction of the mono-confessional German settlements, anti-religious policy of the Soviet State, lack of religious education, reduction in the number of parishioners, loss of the national language, and use of various musical material in the service. The transformation of culture as a holistic, translational-transformative process, which aims at modifying culture through the introduction of foreign elements into it violates its usual rhythm, always sets a new vector of cultural development that requires in-depth understanding.
Keywords: transformation, cultural boundaries, Lutheranism, Russian Germans, Kemerovo region, Lutheran chants, chorales, religious associations.
