MUSIC AND CHOIR EDUCATION IN UKRAINE XVI–XVIII СЕNTURIES

The article analyzes the development of music and choral education during the Slavic Renaissance and Ukrainian Baroque. The special significance of the ideas of spirituality and the revival of Ukrainian-Slavic values of religious and folk singing is revealed in view of the absence of statehood, the decline of Orthodox musical traditions. The significance of the reformist ideas of «purification of the church» and the culture of the Enlightenment is highlighted. Positive results of the development of music and choral education on the basis of Renaissance-Baroque (Cossack) Ukrainian culture were revealed. The value of Cossack-kobzar music and choral education, regional music and choral schools, the phenomenon of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is emphasized. The analysis of scientific sources testifies to the intensive development of music and choral education in Ukraine during the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, which took place in difficult conditions of the liberation struggle of Ukrainians for national culture, spirituality and consciousness. The achievements of the national music and choral education of the Slavic Renaissance include the preservation of ideas and traditions of the post-Byzantine Balkan-Slavic culture of Orthodox singing (monasteries, parish schools); appeal to Roman Catholic music and choral education (Jesuit, Latin, Protestant, Uniate secondary and higher institutions); a bright revival of humanistic and educational slogans, traditions of national music and choral education, which took place taking into account European achievements (Ostroh Academy, fraternal schools). Musical and choral education of the Hetmanate (Ukrainian Baroque), despite the gradual destruction of statehood, was marked by the revival of Ukrainian culture of the Renaissance-Baroque (Cossack) type. Centers of kobzar-Cossack music and choral education and culture, regional singing schools, spiritual and singing Orthodox culture flourished (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, monastic, hierarchical, secular city centers) flourished. Ukrainian music and choral education was glorified by the geniuses of the Ukrainian people M. Diletsky, D. Rostovsky, D. Bortnyansky, M. Berezovsky, A. Wedel, G. Skovoroda. The prospects for further research include a systematic analysis of trends in music and choral education in Ukraine in the populist period.