Pater A. Performing dimensions of Ukrainian sacred music.

The thesis is the first scientific study of the Performing features of Ukrainian sacred music in Ukrainian musicology. In the study for the first time in Ukrainian musicology:  the choral sacred musical culture of Ukraine is highlighted as a phenomenon of preserving the cultural memory of the nation;  the iconic components of the national character in the system of the “national image of the world” – sophistry, hesychasm and cordocentrism-are identified, which form the ideological core of the church monodia of the XVII century as the foundation of Ukrainian choral sacred music of subsequent eras;  the analysis of samples of the monodic tradition – cherubic songs of the Kyiv and Bulgarian semivs-is carried out in the context of identifying signs of the archetype of sophistry;  the conceptual performing and methodological foundations of leading masters of choral culture in Ukraine of the XX-early XXI centuries are outlined, which are marked by the influence of ethical and ideological and aesthetic values of conductors;  the characteristic features of the phenomenon of the performing style of the national choral tradition are identified and outlined, which consist in rethinking the style orientations of the era of the Performed Work, the system of musical and speech resources in the process of conducting and choral interpretation through the prism of personal auditory representation of the sound ideal, aesthetic and ideological beliefs and national worldview of performers.  systematically and comprehensively analyzed Ukrainian sacred music in the academic choral tradition-traced the creative activity of professional choral groups of different regions of the country in the context of the revival of sacred music, drew attention to the frequency of use of sacred works of Ukrainian composers in the programs of concert performances, identified the performance-style features of the interpretation of sacred music, in particular, highlighted the parameters of the standard of choral sound in the Performing interpretation of sacred music by choral groups;  the content of the concepts “performing style of a choral group” and “reference performing version” in knowledge about the National Choral performing culture and the preservation of sacred traditions by academic choral groups of Ukraine in regional and national contexts has been further developed.