Chants in Honour of the Great Martyr Prince Lazar of Serbia in the Old Russian Notated Manuscripts Cover Image

Песнопения в честь великомученика князя Лазаря Сербского в древнерусских нотированных рукописях
Chants in Honour of the Great Martyr Prince Lazar of Serbia in the Old Russian Notated Manuscripts

Author(s): Natalʹia Viktorovna Mosiagina
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Music, Social history, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: The Holy Lazar; Prince of Serbia; the ancient Russian notated manuscripts; Znamenny chant; Znamenny notation;

Summary/Abstract: The manuscript containing the service of St. Lazar Hrebeljanović was presented to the Russian Tsar in 1550 by the abbot of the Hilandar monastery Paisius. We currently know only two manuscripts containing hymns to the Saint Lazar: RNB, Kir.-Bel. 586/843 (eighth decade of the 16th century) and RBB, f. 379 № 66 (mid17th century). The older source is more complete. It includes stichera of Small and Great Vespers (on Lord I have cried and aposticha), stichera at the Litya, stichera at the end of Psalm 50, aposticha of Matins, as well as exapostilarion and theotokion. In addition, there are indications that two canons have been performed (a total of 31 hymns). In the younger source the chanting repertoire is much smaller - there are only doxastika and , stichera at the end of Psalm 50 (a total of 6 songs). The doxastika presented in these manuscripts have different musical variants.

  • Issue Year: 1/2020
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 47-60
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian