"Prayer of Manasseh" in Baroque <i>partes </i>compositions: texts, redactions, interpretations
The author studied three Baroque choral compositions written on the Biblical Manasseh’s prayer. These are four-voice sacred concertos “Sogreshikh pache” and “Plachi dushe”, written by Nikolay Diletsky (c. 1630-1690), a composer from the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, who served at court of Russian tsar Fedor Alekseyevich (1676-1682), as well as three-voice concerto “Sogreshikh pache”, probably written by Thomas Sheverovsky (1646/47-1699), who was the court Kapellmeister of the Metropolitan of Kiev Kyprian Zochovsky. The article shows how composers conveys the idea of deep repentance by means of musical expression and how rhetorical figures is used in their choral writings. The full score of Diletsky’s concerto “Plachi dushe” attached in the annex to the article. This first publication of “Plachi dushe” is based on the manuscript copy of 1723.