Духовна пісня в українському фольклорному середовищі (проблеми наукової рецепції)

• Published in: Слово і Час
• Date: 2019
• Main Author: Сироїд, О.І.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Інститут літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України 2019
• Subjects: Фольклористика
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/190072
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Духовна пісня в українському фольклорному середовищі (проблеми наукової рецепції) / О.І. Сироїд // Слово і Час. — 2019. — № 11. — С. 62-71. — Бібліогр.: 35 назв. — укp.

У статті окреслено самобутнє явище духовної пісні в українській усній традиції, визначено
 основні ознаки цієї групи поетично-музичних текстів, їх функціональне спрямування. Виокремлено
 деякі проблеми дослідження народного релігійного репертуару, насамперед особливості зв’язку
 духовного та світського пісенного епосу. The paper outlines the original phenomenon of a spiritual song in the Ukrainian oral tradition,
 determines characteristic features of these texts and their functions. Besides, the author focuses on
 some special research issues concerning the folklore religious repertoire, first of all, the specificity of
 the relationship between spiritual and secular epic songs.
 The spiritual song in the Ukrainian oral tradition is a large group of poetical and musical works, united
 primarily by the religious Christian themes and endowed with the ability to acquire special spiritual
 meaning in the life of a believer, exercise an important function of satisfying his/her spiritual religious
 needs. Another defining feature of these songs is a lack of clear attachment to a certain rite, time,
 occasion. An episodic attachment of individual texts to the rite only reveals their multifunctionality,
 since, as a rule, the same work may be used in various rituals, appear in the repertoire of professional
 singers, and perform some other functions simultaneously. Essential for the differentiation of the
 spiritual song phenomenon in the folklore milieu is the fact of distinguishing this group of works and
 perceiving it as integrity by the bearers of tradition themselves until now. They use special folk concepts
 for its designation (‘God’s songs’, ‘psalms’). At the same time, this large stratum of folk repertoire is
 divided into two sub-groups, namely folklorized songs of book origin and those of folk origin. Thus,
 the phenomenon of a spiritual song in the Ukrainian oral tradition is characterized by a rich variety of
 texts in terms of character, time of emergence, nature, form, style, and genre features.
 The practice of perception, recording, and comprehension of spiritual songs has developed certain
 concepts and approaches. The present paper offers an attempt to systematize the previous experience
 and distinguish the problems that were raised in the works by various researchers and remained
 topical, often lacking a proper resolution. Attention to the system of the research approaches gives a
 guideline to the author and forms a sense of the continuing tradition.