Tradition of singing in voice in Russian Orthodox Church of the newest period
The paper discusses singing in voice, which is a stylistically stablest part of the divine church chanting, differing by elasticity of the form and oral tradition of existence. Analyzing a semantic unit of a tune, i.e. line, we arrive at a conclusion that the basic rhythmic unit for choristers here is the word. Data on left-chorus tradition of performance of divine church chanting in the 21<sup>st</sup> century which has considerable specificity in comparison with singing of the right chorus are presented. Plurality of variants of performance of tunes «in voice» shows uniqueness of singing tradition of each temple.