Civilizational Changes in Church Music: Singing Books in the Libraries’ Inventories in the Basilian Monasteries in the Rus Province (the Second Half of the 18th — Early 19th Centuries)

Abstract

This article offers an analysis the of church music books of the Basilian monasteries of the Rus province in the second half of the 18th— early 19th centuries. Publishing activities of the printing house in Pochayiv Basilian Monastery is described, based on studying the monastery inventories. Publishing targeted on music books, in particular printing so called «Irmola» — multy-genre books, which is a specific Ukrainian type of the church singing book. The article also focuses on the influences of the Basilian Order on the spread of Western Christian cultural influences in the second half of the 18th century.