PECULIARITIES OF THE TRADITIONAL SERVICE OF THE OLD BELIEVERS-SEMEISKIE
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Information about authors: Fattakhova Leyla Rinatovna, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor of Instrumental Performance and Musicology Department, Dostoevsky Omsk State University (Omsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: fattler@ omsu.ru
Annotation: The materials of a long-term study of the Old Believers-Semeiskie services (Old Believers of Bichursky district, Buryatia) are summarized in this study. The author used an integrated research approach, that allowed to combine historical, aesthetic, cultural and musical-theoretical methods of studying the object. Moreover, methods worked out by field ethnography and archeography were widely used at the materials collection stage. The analytic apparatus of the study was formed under the influence of the Russian medievalists works: Kazanceva T.G., Polozova I.V. et al. [1; 2; 10]. During many years of expeditionary activity, the author has been recording particular Old Believers services, that were later comprehensively analyzed in this paper. As a result, the features of the traditional service’s structure are revealed. Old Believers-Semeiskie “genetically” refer to “Popovsky” branch of the Old Believers, but due to various circumstances, most communities do not have clerics, which led to a significant impoverishment of the service’s ritual side, as various actions and ordinances that only a priest can perform, and even entire sections of the service were excluded from the ritual practice. At the same time, some of the historical events, in particular, church reforms at the turn of the 14th – 15th centuries and the middle of the 17th century influenced the order of the Old Believers’ Service. This study pays special attention to the musical and stylistic component of the service. The lack of professional singers in the communities has led to the fact that many service sections, proposed by the singing statute, are often performed as a “Chitok.” Antiphonal and respondent singing in their turn almost completely fell out of use.
Keywords: Russian Orthodox Old Believers Church, liturgical chants of Old Believers, liturgical practice of old believers, all-night vigil, liturgical canon
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Information about authors: Fattakhova Leyla Rinatovna, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor of Instrumental Performance and Musicology Department, Dostoevsky Omsk State University (Omsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: fattler@ omsu.ru
Annotation: The materials of a long-term study of the Old Believers-Semeiskie services (Old Believers of Bichursky district, Buryatia) are summarized in this study. The author used an integrated research approach, that allowed to combine historical, aesthetic, cultural and musical-theoretical methods of studying the object. Moreover, methods worked out by field ethnography and archeography were widely used at the materials collection stage. The analytic apparatus of the study was formed under the influence of the Russian medievalists works: Kazanceva T.G., Polozova I.V. et al. [1; 2; 10]. During many years of expeditionary activity, the author has been recording particular Old Believers services, that were later comprehensively analyzed in this paper. As a result, the features of the traditional service’s structure are revealed. Old Believers-Semeiskie “genetically” refer to “Popovsky” branch of the Old Believers, but due to various circumstances, most communities do not have clerics, which led to a significant impoverishment of the service’s ritual side, as various actions and ordinances that only a priest can perform, and even entire sections of the service were excluded from the ritual practice. At the same time, some of the historical events, in particular, church reforms at the turn of the 14th – 15th centuries and the middle of the 17th century influenced the order of the Old Believers’ Service. This study pays special attention to the musical and stylistic component of the service. The lack of professional singers in the communities has led to the fact that many service sections, proposed by the singing statute, are often performed as a “Chitok.” Antiphonal and respondent singing in their turn almost completely fell out of use.
Keywords: Russian Orthodox Old Believers Church, liturgical chants of Old Believers, liturgical practice of old believers, all-night vigil, liturgical canon
