FEMALE ARCHETYPAL IMAGES IN EAST SLAVIC MUSICAL CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Abstract

The purpose of the study. The article is devoted to the results of the study of the peculiarities of the embodiment of female archetypal images in the East Slavic musical tradition of the Middle Ages – folklore and church singing.
The research methodology is based on historical, musicological, ethnomusicological, and musicological-medievalist approaches to the study of cultural phenomena of the musical culture of the Eastern Slavs. The article contains an interdisciplinary, synthetic approach that allows us to study folklore and monodic samples of the East Slavic area.