Sacred Choral Works by Valentina Martynyuk as Allusions of the Orthodox Church Singing

Abstract

Purpose of Article. The article refers to the implementation of the authentic nature in contemporary choral music. Instead of citing, the method of allusions allows us to reproduce the ancient tradition of Orthodox church singing. Methodology. The methodology of the research consists of corporate, comparative and typological methods. This methodological approach allows to analyse the modern choral works of Valentina Martynyuk, a Dnepr composer and to understand new trends in Ukrainian church music at the modern stage of musical progress. The author’s reference to the problem of sacredness encourages us to research the relations between authorial and canonical texts, their interaction and their inclination to get closer to authentic samples of the Orthodox church singing. Scientific innovation of work consists of expansion of ideas about application on the modern stage of principles of stylize and allusion in their combination, synthesis of canonical text and elements of national flavour. Conclusions. The Valentina’s Martynyuk choral spiritual works are naturally written into the general panorama of modern native choral culture. They answer the necessities of time, demand on enriching and updating of spiritual repertoire of both church everyday life and concert and performing level. Such double direction stipulates the modern authors to create two categories of spiritual works, and to combine the church and social concert traditions in the compositions. They are stimulated by the elements of programmaticness, the receptions of allusion of the Orthodox singing. The combination of the sacral and national elements in choral miniature creates the new spiritual folklore type of music.