Textological structural-formula method and its application in analysis of the old Russian monodia works of authorship
The author reveals the essence of the proposed method of decoding and analysis of ancient Russian church chants developed in the process of their direct study. Offered the structural-formula method assumes: revealing of chants formula structure; reconstruction of missing tracings or the simple signs forming razvods (explanations of formula) on written sources; formula- by-formula synchronous comparison of different lists and authorship singsongs (raspevs) in view of that the same formula can be written down or as tracings, or as the simple signs forming razvods, clearing up the melodic content of formulae; decoding and the analysis of the musical formula-intonation content of church chanting; revealing connections of figurative - semantic hymnographycal verbal text and singsong “raspev” on this base. Due to use of a structural-formula method the creative principles of ancient Russian composers, embodied in their chants, are revealed. Numerous church chanting, including the extensive cycles being top of creativity of the most outstanding masters, are deciphered and analysed. The author has developed techniques of chants compound neumes and formulae revealing, of the regional and author's features of their razvods definition and of summary information tables drawing up. It has enabled to research the chants, created by outstanding masters, from the point of view of their information in the field of the ancient Russian musical-written art theory. In this way, the method provides the most accurate results of authorship works study as on the vast Russia territory there were a lot of chanting art schools had the same compound neumatic signs and formulas different musical content. The method has allowed to solve the many more private problems also.