OKTAY OF CHURCH SINGING OF EDINOVERIE CHANT: TO THE PROBLEM OF THE CHURCH SINGING TRADITION OF EDINOVERIE CHURCH
This article gives a multi-aspect analysis of a singing manuscript of the late 19th century kept at the Scientiﬁc Library of Tomsk State University. This manuscript is of interest as an example of the so-called linear-stolp dvoznamennik; it reﬂects liturgical singing tradition of Svyato-Troitzkiy parish, the ﬁrst Edinoverie church in Siberia. It is found that the manuscript was created by a member of the well-known family of Ural-Siberian Old Believers, I. A. Lepikhin. The compiler not only translated the stolp notation to Kiev linear but also formed the collection by himself. The result was a book of unusual structure which represents a contamination of sections of Obikhod, Octoechos and Irmologion. The analysis of the musical text has shown that the singing tradition of Tomsk Edinovertsy is oriented towards the All-Russian tradition but has its individual diﬀerences in interpretation of the examples of stolp Znamenny chant and Obikhod chants. The chant of the Cherubin song shows considerable originality and is derived from the upper voice of its polyphonic version. Speciﬁ c features of the content of the singing manuscript are considered in a broad context of the All-Russian Edinoverie movement intensiﬁed at the turn of the 19th century.