Concerning the Issue of the Typology of Priests’ Invocations

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Oksana E. Sheludyakova

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of liturgical Orthodox
Christian invocations by priests. The object of research is
the church tradition, which found its relection in audio and
video recordings and in publications of the deciphered chants.
In the process of the analysis the following is disclosed: the
place of the invocations in the church service, the genre of the
church service (for example, the Hymn to the Theotokos or the
prokeimenon); the type of intonating of the text (for example,
the psalmody, the cantilena, etc.); the means of notation (by the
znamenny notation, the “Kiev notation” or the present-day ivelined
staff notation); the genesis of intonation (song, arioso or
znamenny chant). The corresponding examples from presentday
church service practice are analyzed, and audio recordings
of the outstanding 20th century deacons – Georgy Naumov,
Dmitri Tarantin, Sergei Strigunov and Andrei Mezyukha – are
deciphered. As a result, a working typology of church service
invocations of priests is proposed, the most typical variants of
their melodic interpretation are disclosed, and a methodology
of analysis of priests’ invocations from the point of view of
musicological and liturgical criteria is offered.

Keywords: deacon, invocation, sacred music, Orthodox
Christian chants

Article Details

How to Cite
Sheludyakova, O. E. (2015). Concerning the Issue of the Typology of Priests’ Invocations. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 36–40. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.2.19.036-040
Section
Sacred Music
Author Biography

Oksana E. Sheludyakova, Ural State M. P. Mussorgsky Conservatory (Academy)

Doctor of Arts,
Professor at the Music Theory Department

 

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