The Native Music Education of the Partes Orientation from the End of the XVII Century to the First Quarter of the XVIII Century
The article reveals the paries singing oriented music education in Peter the Great period as the system of two basic forms: constant polyphonic oriented music education directed to the paries singing harmonization mastering, and variable polyphonic oriented music education meeting style characteristics of paries singing concert. The analysis of choir repertoire demonstrates the appropriateness of assumption about the merging of Russian and Ukrainian singing schools. The main feature of Russian school represented by monarchic, patriarchic and hierarchal choruses was constant polyphonic oriented style learning close to Orthodox musical traditions. The distinctive feature of Ukrainian school represented by tsarist and noble part singers was variable polyphonic oriented style learning. The necessity of both harmonic and plain chant thinking in singers' education is proved in this article.