Антифонният жанр в латинския репертоар за св. Николай
The antiphonal genre in the Latin office of St. Nicolas

Summary/Abstract: St. Nicolas is the only Eastern saint in the Latin Christianity, distinguished by rich, complete and developed chant repertory. This repertory leads to certain questions about the time and the way of compilation, whether some part or the full repertory was borrowed from other offices or, on the contrary, was “composed” in memory of St. Nicolas in particular. The present article is a part of a more detailed research about the chant repertory about St. Nicolas. The attention here is focused on a certain chant genre – the gospel antiphons for the Vespers and Lauds. The results of the investigation of the antiphons confirm my observation upon the liturgical and structural specifics of the repertory, published in a previous paper, that the chant repertory about St. Nicolas, based on the discussed antiphons, could be assumed as composed especially for the purpose of worship to the saint. There is considerable probability that this has happened shortly after the transition of the relics of the saint to Bari, Italy, in 1087. The article also features observations on certain interactions between different chants of the office of St. Nicolas as well as the repertory for later established offices. After the research of the antiphonal genre, it is possible to gain a more detailed and clear picture about the compilation of a certain chant corpus, which gives a perspective for searching a point of contact with the service of St. Nicolas in the Orthodox church.

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