Shumilina O. Style dynamics of Ukrainian Sacred Music of ХVII-XVIIIth centuries (based on manuscript collections)

The dissertation is devoted to researching of the stylistic transformation dynamic of in the Ukrainian spiritual music of ХVII-XVIIIth centuries. The study was conducted on a wide range of source materials from the manuscript collections of Ukraine, near and far abroad. In the process, unknown musical manuscripts of partesny and early classical phases were found; newfounded works have become the main material for analysis. The study is based on a combination of source stydy, music and stylistic analysis methods. Problem of the dissertation has concentrated on identifying the main features of the stylistic evolution processes that took place in the work of different stages of development of Ukrainian Sacred Music of the ХVII-XVIIIth centuries in direction from baroque to classicism, and establishing the role of national and non-indigenous components in these processes. In the dissertation as a result of generalization of the ХVII-XVIIIth centuries Ukrainian musical culture scientific musicology achievements study and through analysis of selected aspects of creativity, the idea of Ukrainian Sacred Music of the ХVII-XVIIIth centuries continuity, i.e. organic connection between its different stages is pursued, and suggests a new periodization that includes a transitional stage - works of 50-60s years of the XVIIIth century. In general and in specific manifestations the idea of secular and sacred music of the European Baroque and classical, traditional and innovative interaction style models reception as a formation factor of the distinct forms of Ukrainian Sacred Music of the ХVII-XVIIIth is proved. In the Thesis there is a number of the first analyzed anonymous partesny concerts, especially written in poetic texts and works of partesny period authorship (by Domaratsky I., Levitsky G.) and newfound spiritual concerts by M. Berezovsky mentioned in the publications of the late XVIIIth and ХІХth centuries and being considered lost until recently.