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EnA. Shadrina
The features of the Southern Russian church singing culture in the second half of the twentieth century on the example of the All Saints church in Taganrog
The analytical review of the music archives of All Saints church in Taganrog is represented in the article. The named archives developed for a period of the 1940–1990s, and to date All Saints church is a possessor of the considerable collection of liturgical chants. The numerous choral works to be published on the boundary of the 19–20th centuries (included the editions of works by A. Vedel and P. Turchaninov) are containing in the mentioned archives. The collection of manuscript scores by church composers of the Don region and the Southern Russia (whose chants were preferred by the precentors of the All Saints church) is of unquestionable interest. In particular the works by the precentors F. Voylenko (Taganrog) and A. Ershov (Novocherkassk), and the well-known music culture worker G. Davidovskiy, as well as M. Skripnikov and Ya. Shevtsov (their chants are the integral part of the contemporary liturgical repertoire of church choirs in the Rostov region, Krasnodar and Stavropol territories), are revealed. This find allows emphasize some typical features of the Southern Russian church singing culture to be connected with intensive reciprocity between Russian and Little Russian cultures. The author of the article establishes the repertoire influence the music collection of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Rostov-on-Don conformably to developing music archive of the All Saints church in Taganrog. The number of manuscript scores from the music collection of the Cathedral to be copied by precentors of the All Saints church appeared in the music archive of this temple since one of these precentors was at the head of the Bishops choir in the Cathedral. As a whole the music archive of the All Saints church in Taganrog represents the valuable monument of the Southern Russian church singing culture in the second half of the 20th century.
Key words
music archive of the All Saints church in Taganrog, church composers of the Don region, F. Voylenko, A. Ershov, G. Davidovskiy, M. Skripnikov, the Southern Russian church singing culture in the second half of the 20th century.
For citation
Shadrina A. The features of the Southern Russian church singing culture in the second half of the twentieth century on the example of the All Saints church in Taganrog // South-Russian Musical Anthology. 2021. No. 3. Pp. 118–124.
