SOURCES ON INVESTIGATION OF CHURCH CHANT CULTURE OF 14TH-17TH CENTURY PSKOV
The article focuses on sources for investigation of one of Old Russian local tradition of church chant - that of Pskov. Scholars have found 18 chant manuscripts of Pskov origin dated from XIV to XV c.: various kinds of Ochtoiekhos, Sticherarion. Chant books of 17th cc. are collеctions of church hymns. We know name of scribers: Andrej and Kuzma Mikulinsky, Luka, Aleksei Kariakin. Pskov chant manuscripts contain mhymns of various styles: znamenny, put, strochnoe, partesny. Notation of Pskov chant manuscripts has its own peculiarities. In 14th c., according to Pletniova's research, various kinds of notations are represented in Pskov manuscripts, including unknown one. Analysis of neumes of Sticherarium of y. 1422 using statistic method shows unique features of the manuscript. Repertoir of neumes correspons with common znamenny notation of 11th-15th c. while percentage is differform it and inherarnt to this very manuscript. Perhaps in 14th-15th c. Pskov was experimental center in the field of music notation. Sources of 17th c. show types of Russian notations (znamenny with cinnabar marks, “kazan”).