Essays of Musical Art of Galician-Volhynian Principality

Abstract

The essays are an unprecedented collection of systematized materials on musical art of Galician-Volhynian Principality of the Rus’ Kingdom. The music of this period is its significant but uninvestigated historic stage, which contributed to the development of Ukrainian music after the collapse of the medieval Kyivan Rus’ state. The essays provide analysis of folk art, instrumental music culture, music in everyday life of princely courts and towns, church chants, and chiming art. The second edition summarizes new facts and shifts some of the accents as a guarantee of a more complete and truthful reconstruction of the development of multinational musical art in this area.