Lecture and Masterclass: Slavonic plainchant and 17th century early Russian polyphony

The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the 16th century, based on medieval monody, two types of polyphonic music began to develop: Troestrochie and Demestvo. But almost all manuscripts of these polyphonic styles were composed in the mid-17th century. The medieval monody itself, or Znamenny cha...