Shevchuk O. Kievan Chant in the Context of the Church-Monodic Singing of Ukraine and Byelorussia in the 17th-18th Centuries (sourses, genres, stylistic traits).

The dissertation examines chants, called "kievsky naspiv ("napil")" (KN) in the context of church monodic singing of the 17th-18th centuries in Ukraine and Byelorussia. For the first time in the Ukrainian musicology, th KN are shown in their multifaceted connections with church music, established on the basis of the existence of different levels of church vocal art:: in context of the Heirmologia, according to theenre system of chants and the church multy-chant conditions. The strukture of Heirmologia is investigated in accordance with the presence of local chants there; the chronology of the giving the name KN to various chants during the 17th-18th cent/ is established. The dissertation considerably restores the method of the chant's genre analysis, systematizes the criteria for the church chant's genre, determines all the genres of KN chants. For the first time, the typology of multichant church singing is elaborated; the KN's stylistic traits are uncovered through their correlation with other local church tunes. The investigation confirms that KN (Obyhod) were formed in the 16th cent., after the establishment of the Jerusalem Typicon in Russia and proves that during the 17th-18th centuries the name KN was acquired solely by traditional native Orthodox chants in order to distinguish them from chants of different origin.