Set of handwritten partbooks from Kyiv collection of parted music of 17th-18th centuries of Institute of Manuscriptof V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Our work aims to investigate and to present the integral characteristic of the set<br /> of partbooks of the church hymn manuscripts that is a part of the Kyiv collection of<br /> the parted music and is saved in the Institute of Manuscript of the V. I. Vernadskyi<br /> National Library of Ukraine. The objectives of our study focus on clarifying the dating,<br /> revealing the structure and systematizing according to the scientific value, genre-<br /> stylistic and historical principles, to show the generalized typological characteristics<br /> of the set. Methodology. To investigate the features of the set of partbooks we<br /> used the scientific tools of historical musicology and musical source studies, codicology,<br /> bibliography, the method of classification and bibliographic analysis of sheet<br /> music manuscripts. Also, historical-comparative, chronological, source studies, textological<br /> and statistical methods were used. Due to these methods we managed to<br /> highlight the composition, content, structural features and informational potential<br /> of the set.Scientific novelty. We were the first to perform a complex codicological,<br /> paleographical and musical source studies analysis of one set of the parted music<br /> which is included in the Kyiv collection of the parted music of the 17th-18th centuries.<br /> We clarified the dating of the manuscript according to the conducted filigree analysis.Conclusions. Kyiv collection of the parted music of the 17th-18th centuries<br /> constitutes a significant part of the Ukrainian church music heritage and has a significant<br /> cultural, historical and scientific value. Our comprehensive codicological study<br /> and detailed analysis of the content of the largest set of partbooks showed a wide<br /> variety of different genres and styles represented in Ukrainian partes music. The<br /> amount of ecclesiastical musical works included in the manuscript is valuable not<br /> only as a part of the spiritual and musical heritage of Ukrainian choral art, but also<br /> for the involvement of a wider range of researchers in musicological and cultural<br /> studies of national spiritual music, that in future will contribute to a deeper understanding<br /> of its phenomenon