PROOEMIA (KONTAKIA) OF HEBDOMADAL AKATHISTOS HYMNS IN UKRAINIAN STAFF-NOTATED HEIRMOLOGIA

Abstract

Progressive development and research of Akathistos Hymns over the last two decades have led to dramatically new perspective on the concept of this genre. On the basis of Akathistos Books without musical notation as well as Ukrainian and Belarussian staff-notated Heirmologia the repertoire of Prooemia of hebdomadal Akatiзistos Hymns has been outlined. Verbal-textual discrepancies between Kontakia in liturgical manuscripts and old print books has been remarked. The principle of singing by the models (“na podoben”) in written tradition on the example of notated Prooemia of Akathistos hymns of 8 tone of Bulgarian chant, namely to Theotokos and the Holy Cross, has been analyzed.