SPIRITUAL VERSES OF HOLY WEEK AND EASTER IN LIFE OF PENZA IMMIGRANTS OF CHELYABINSK REGION
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Information about authors: Gumerova Olga Anatolyevna, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of History and Theory of Music, Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: gumerchik@mail.ru
Annotation: In the conditions of modern globalization, which neutralizes cultural and national identity, confessional differences, the search for spiritual constants and restoration of value orientations transmitted from generation to generation become especially important. This explains in many respects the increased interest of contemporary musicology towards the genre of spiritual verse, which has concentrated in itself the basic ethical values of the Russian people, striving for ethnic and religious self-knowledge. The article considers one local branch in the development of this genre based on the current tradition of Penza immigrants in Chelyabinsk region. The center of attention are the poems dedicated to Holy Week and Easter. The goal set in the article is to confirm the hypothesis that the spiritual verses of this group are not scattered chants but a form of a monolithic cycle. The search for mutual binding the bonds between them predetermined the main vector and research strategy of the article. Using the comparative analysis of the texts of spiritual verses and their sources, the forms of rethinking and adaptation the invariants of text are considered. The folk fantasy draws inspiration from the stories of the Gospel, prayers and hymns of the Liturgy, apocryphal literature and author’s spiritual poetry. As the analysis has shown, in all samples the borrowed text acquires a pronounced lyrical coloring. The chosen method allows us to disclose the dialectics of the relationship between folklore and church-singing traditions, various manifestations of bilingualism, reflecting the interaction of the folk and Church Slavonic languages. A particular attention is paid to the identification of typical features in melodic, metric, textural, frets and structural models of spiritual verses. Based on the analysis, a conclusion is made about the wholeness of the group of hymns in question, not only on the content level but also on the musical stylistic level.
Keywords: spiritual verse, popular Orthodoxy, traditional culture
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Information about authors: Gumerova Olga Anatolyevna, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of History and Theory of Music, Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: gumerchik@mail.ru
Annotation: In the conditions of modern globalization, which neutralizes cultural and national identity, confessional differences, the search for spiritual constants and restoration of value orientations transmitted from generation to generation become especially important. This explains in many respects the increased interest of contemporary musicology towards the genre of spiritual verse, which has concentrated in itself the basic ethical values of the Russian people, striving for ethnic and religious self-knowledge. The article considers one local branch in the development of this genre based on the current tradition of Penza immigrants in Chelyabinsk region. The center of attention are the poems dedicated to Holy Week and Easter. The goal set in the article is to confirm the hypothesis that the spiritual verses of this group are not scattered chants but a form of a monolithic cycle. The search for mutual binding the bonds between them predetermined the main vector and research strategy of the article. Using the comparative analysis of the texts of spiritual verses and their sources, the forms of rethinking and adaptation the invariants of text are considered. The folk fantasy draws inspiration from the stories of the Gospel, prayers and hymns of the Liturgy, apocryphal literature and author’s spiritual poetry. As the analysis has shown, in all samples the borrowed text acquires a pronounced lyrical coloring. The chosen method allows us to disclose the dialectics of the relationship between folklore and church-singing traditions, various manifestations of bilingualism, reflecting the interaction of the folk and Church Slavonic languages. A particular attention is paid to the identification of typical features in melodic, metric, textural, frets and structural models of spiritual verses. Based on the analysis, a conclusion is made about the wholeness of the group of hymns in question, not only on the content level but also on the musical stylistic level.
Keywords: spiritual verse, popular Orthodoxy, traditional culture
