HANDWRITTEN HEIRMOLOGIONS – AN IMPORTANT SOURCES FOR RESEARCHING THE SPIRITUAL-SONG CULTURE OF TRANSCARPATHIA IN THE ХVІІІ – ХІХ CENTURIES

Abstract

The article examines the development of spiritual-song culture, focusing on the importance of the clergy, the opening of religious educational institutions, and the dissemination of heirmologions’ manuscript in the liturgical and educational practice of Transcarpathia in the 18 th – early 19 th centuries.
A review of the contents of heirmologions’ manuscript indicates the functioning of the traditional festive repertoire of church singing, which was characteristic of the Ukrainian Heirmoloi tradition of the 17 – 18 th centuries.
A number of genres have been clarified and defined, which in Yuhasevych's heirmologions belong to the Bulgarian gender, which further confirms the peculiarities of the formation of the heirmologions’ repertoire based on the interaction of multinational traditions, the adaptation of their musical component in church singing practice, the preservation of ancient forms of sacred monody, an important part of the spiritual and song culture of the region.