The God - Mentioner is a collection of 18th-century religious songs performed outside the church rite .
Appearance
A collection of religious songs The God-Voglas was compiled on the basis of handwritten song books of the 17th – 18th centuries. His first printed publication saw the light of 1790 in Volyn at the Pochaev printing house . Then, until the beginning of the 20th century, the collection was repeatedly reprinted [1] [2] .
Songwriters
Among the authors of religious songs were such famous figures as, for example, St. Dimitry of Rostov (No. 33, 101, 138, 242), G. Skovoroda (No. 227), I. Pashkovsky . Also, the authors and distributors were wandering students of various educational institutions, school students, some poets and musicians. It is interesting that sometimes they left their names in the form of acrostics [3] .
Record Songs
The texts are mainly in the Old Ukrainian book language , less often in Church Slavonic , Polish (33 songs) or Latin (3 songs) [4] . The songs ended with syllabic verses of various sizes [5] .
The notes were written in square Kiev notation in the same voice. [4] Subsequently, among the composers who took part in the processing of melodies were N. Lysenko , N. Leontovich , S. Lyudkevich , V. Barvinsky , A. Kosits [6] .
Song Themes
Among the most popular song themes were works of the Christmas cycle, many of which have survived to this day. There were also theotokos songs, imbued with warmth and lyrics and, generally, songs glorifying Jesus Christ , locally revered saints and reverends , and miraculous icons . In addition, the repentant psalms of King David , for example, No. 50 [6] [7] , became quite common.
Notes
- ↑ Medvedik Yu. “God-Voglasnik” - the memorial of the Ukrainian musical culture XVII — XVIII century. "ZNTSh", 1996, v. 232.
- ↑ Schurat V. Іz studіy over the Pochaivsky “God Voglasnik”. Lviv, 1908.
- ↑ Scheglova S. “God-Voglasnik”: Historical and literary research. K., 1918.
- ↑ 1 2 “God-consonant” // Orthodox Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 441–442
- ↑ Franco I. The Spiritual Church Tradition at the Descent at the Sunset: Entrance to the studios over the “God-Singer”. In the book: Franco I. Zibrannya tvorіv, t. 39.K., 1983.
- ↑ 1 2 Yu.P. Yasinovsky. THE GOGLIST // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : at 10 t.: [ Ukrainian ] / editorial: V. A. Smoliy (head) and ін. ; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine . - K .: Naukova Dumka , 2003 .-- T. 1: A - B. - 688 p. : il. - ISBN 966-00-0734-5 .
- ↑ Gnatyuk O. Ukrainian spiritual baroque scripture. Warsaw-K., 1994.
When writing this article, the material was used from the article “ GOGLOGASNIK ” (author Yu.P. Yasinovskiy) from the publication “ Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ”, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license .