Православное пение во внехрамовой деятельности Церкви: к вопросу о свободе и ответственности в православном музыкальном искусстве

Abstract

Article is devoted to problems of spiritual education of youth in extra temple activity of the Church connected with an educational mission of orthodox musical art. At a boundary of the 20–21st centuries we observe significant turn of the Russian culture to orthodox traditions. The course of state policy directed to effective cooperation with Russian Orthodox Church provided development of orthodox musical art in a number of the directions, including, in activity of Sunday schools, military patriotic clubs, festivals of orthodox art for children and young people and so forth. The author of the article, highlighting the advantages of various functions of orthodox musical creativity, emphasizes the importance of the study of ancient Russian songwriting: canonical and folk spiritual. This, for the most part, unused and unclaimed layer of Russian musical culture bears the main essential and semantic function of orthodox musical art: it is similar to sacred icons, demonstrates supermundane reality of the Kingdom. Without belittling the importance of song creativity of wide spiritual content, the author points to the advantages of teachers' orientation to the canonical direction, which in a musical form expresses the dogmas of the Church, revives the unique intonation fund of Russian musical and linguistic culture, retains a significant part of the genetic cultural memory.