The Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s Musical and Hymnographic Creativity Sources (By the Example of Sticherons to St. Peter the Metropolitan of All Russia)

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Natalya V. Parfentieva
Nikolai P. Parfentiev

Abstract

The authors of the article solve the problem of identifying sources for the chants of Ivan IV the Terrible, dedicated to St. Peter, Metropolitan of All Russia. The research is based on materials from manuscripts of the 12th–17th centuries. The relevance and novelty of the study are due to the fact that these sources have not been identified in the scientific works relating to the chants of the tsar. Without solving this problem, it is impossible to reveal the authorʼs principles of musical and hymnographical creativity. Understanding of their foundations gives the key to the creative laboratory not only of tsar Ivan and his entourage, which consisted of the best masters of church singing, but in general – to solving the most difficult problem of authorship in medieval Russian musical art. For the first time,the researchers have paid particular attention to the study of the chanting cycle “Most Blessed Father Saint Peter” to Peter, Metropolitan of All Russia,on base of the unique record of its text in Sticherar(Musical Collections of Sticherons)written by outstanding raspevshchik (church chant master) Login Shishelov. The researchers conducted the study based on author’s method of structural formulae analysis, worked out by them. An interdisciplinary approach is also important in the problematic field of musicology, history, source studies, textual criticism, philology.


Keywords: Old Russian church singing art, Znamenny chant, creativity of authorship, musical hymnographical art, sticherons to Peter, Metropolitan of All Russia, Tsar Ivan the Terrible.

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Parfentieva Н. В., & Parfentiev Н. П. (2022). The Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s Musical and Hymnographic Creativity Sources (By the Example of Sticherons to St. Peter the Metropolitan of All Russia). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 46(1), 71–86. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1340
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Sacred Music
Author Biographies

Natalya V. Parfentieva, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Natalya V. Parfentieva, DrSci (Arts), Professor, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, Head at the Theology, Culture and Arts Department

Nikolai P. Parfentiev, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Nikolai P. Parfentiev, DrSci (Arts), DrSci (History), Professor, Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation, Director of the Scientific and Educational Center “Actual Problems of the History and Theory of Culture”