Cередньовічні музичні інструменти на фресці Вознесенської церкви села Лужани, найдавнішого храму української Буковини
Medieval musical instruments on the fresco of the Ascension of Jesus Church in Luzhany village, the ancient temple of Ukrainian Bukovyna

Summary/Abstract: Iconographic sources on the history of Ukrainian music are rarely investigated. A unique case is the attraction of new medieval monuments of musical culture. Purpose of the article. Explore musical instruments from the frescoes of the Ascension Church in the village of Luzhany and determine if these instruments could be used in ancient Ukrainian lands in real life. The methodology of the research is to apply mainly descriptive and comparative methods of iconographic and archaeological sources — scientific novelty. For the first time two musical instruments from the unique medieval frescoes of the Ascension Church in the village of Luzhany, the most ancient temple of Ukrainian Bukovina, have been described and studied. Conclusions. Frescoes depicting musicians from the Ascension Church of the village of Luzhany are ranked in line with two other medieval masterpieces of the iconographic Ukrainian musical heritage – frescoes of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv and the Holy Trinity chapel in Lublin. In our study, it has been proved that one of the two musical instruments depicted. Namely, the Byzantine lyre was used in neighboring territories, in the Black Sea steppe, in Opole, in Novgorod, and the Pskov region, and therefore it is quite likely that it was also used in Bukovyna. If the existence in Byzantine lyre of Bukovina looks quite realistic, then the second musical instrument, the "strumento di porco," pig's head psaltery, could well be used in local music practice. However, if in the first case there is an obvious eastward, most certainly Byzantine in-fluence, then the second musical instrument was invented in Spain and, accordingly, there is a western musical influence here.

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