THE ONTOLOGICAL BASIS OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX MUSIC

Abstract

The article examines the ontological feature of the sacred music of Ukrainian Orthodoxy from the point of view of interpreting the most important components of the phenomenon, aimed, on the one hand, at creating, and on the other hand, at reproducing its most diverse models of life within the framework of the cult rituals of the Ukrainian Orthodox tradition. First of all, we focus our attention on tracking the specifics of the creation of certain musical and aesthetic samples, full of religious content aimed at forming the artistic imagery of the studied phenomenon, from the point of view of the self-expression of its personal nature, "accredited" by a number of iconic figures of the composer beaumond of the most diverse generations, authors of individual works of divine content of the widest ritual circle of their application. In this context, we analyze the effectiveness of the process of creating numerous samples of such music in the course of its historical "relief" (early forms of church singing, ancient Ukrainian church monody, polyphonic /partes/ church music, Ukrainian spiritual music of the classical style, spiritual music of the era of Ukrainian romanticism, as well as sacred music-making of the modern era) – the basic form-forming component of the phenomenon's vital activity. At the same time, the factor of one more component of the cult singing tradition of Ukrainian Orthodoxy is brought to the rank of great scientific interest – the factor of the effectiveness of the masses (the subjectivity of group sacred music making), the activator of musical and aesthetic samples of such music along the entire perimeter of its effectiveness. Summarizing our reflections on the proposed perspective of understanding the problem, we assert that the music of Ukrainian Orthodoxy is a phenomenon of sacred artistic imagery within the framework of the cult rituals of the specified religion, the effective vectors of which express, on the one hand, the process of creation, on the other hand – the mechanism of reproduction of the content of such imagery, within the limits of a clearly defined contour of its effectiveness, formalized by the logic of intonation-rhythmic separation of the most diverse schemes of these or those plot formations.