Kharyton I. The phenomenon of sacred music in Ukrainian orthodox tradition.

The thesis is the first in the science of our country complex philosophic and religion science research of a phenomenon of music in Ukrainian orthodoxy in which, the Author reveals its religion science and philosophic nature, its purpose, spiritual substance, artistic-functional features, historical development and transformation that occur on the border of divine and socio-cultural level, mechanism and essence of suggestive influence on believers as well as understanding of problematics of the phenomenon in the context of our modern times. Incorporation of elements of musicological level of understanding into religion science makes it possible to analyse the phenomenon as a whole system which unites its various parts-sources, historical, historiographic, musicological, psychological and philosophical. The proposed conception of the phenomenon is a means of philosophic and religion science understanding of it at the present stage. It is limited by narrow-profiled and branch problem researches and itkeeps away from the scale of their local competence, transforming into the sociocultural level the first approach to which is represented by us.