Към терминологията на репертоара за Божествената служба в Грегорианския антифонар
To the Terminology of the Repertoire for Divine Office in the Gregorian Antiphoner

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental vision of music as a manifestation of Divine creation is grounded in the core of European cosmology. This vision draws “the red line” of European understanding for the sounds and their harmony – since Greek-Roman Antiquity and Old Testament Judaea through the Medieval liturgical monody and increasing contrapuntal practice. The ontological meaning of music requires to concentrate on the micro level of certain musical aspects, but also to put these details in the full picture of musical existence. That is why the knowledge of music needs also to be focused on overnational and over-cultural inheritance level. The present article aims to shed light on the terminology of the Gregorian chant and more specifically that part of it, represented in the Antiphoner. The function of the paper is rather informative than investigative. The purpose is to offer a basis of terms, able to depict Gregorian melodies, which could be assumed without exaggeration as a vocabulary of European musical language in general.

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