Musical Chapels of the Volyn Voivodes and Marshales in the Early Modern Period

Abstract

Purpose of Article. To collect and research information on several musicians and musical chapels who served in the representatives of the ancient Volyn princes’ families. They also held the highest leading administrative positions in the Volhynian Voivodeship of the Commonwealth. Methodology. To apply general scientific objectivity principle, historical and logical, analytical and cultural science methods. Such methodological approach allows to disclose the meaning and significance of musical chapels of the Volyn Voivodes and Marshales of the Commonwealth, to determine their specificity and regularity of existence. Scientific novelty. To expand a notion of the musical heritage of Ukraine and Ukrainians in a specific ethnocultural region and, thus, to include the mentioned knowledge in general, all-Ukrainian musicological discourse. Conclusions. The result of research of the available materials on musical chapels of the Volyn Voivodes and Marshales the history of the musical culture of Lutsk and Volyn appears in a new light and obtains new meanings. Until recently they thought that the musical culture of the certain North-Western regions of Ukraine in the XVII century was confined exclusively to religious and song ritual singing. In fact, just the princely musical chapels were the bearers of the highest modern professional art, which undoubtedly left its mark on all other areas of musical culture of Volyn and other Ukrainian lands in the early modern period. Moreover, this research proves that court musicians and musical chapels have always existed in Volyn Voivodes for at least two centuries as an evidence of long hereditary musical tradition.