World Treasury Research Articles

Specificity of Creative Universalism of the Ukrainian Diaspora Bandurists

The purpose of the research is to determine the vectors of creative universalism in the activities of bandura artists of the Ukrainian diaspora of the 20th – early 21st centuries. The article analyzes the principles and manifestations of creative universalism of the bandura art of the Ukrainian diaspora. The personalities of bandura artists of the diaspora, whose work has become a manifestation of universalism in the context of actualizing the need to generalize and analyze the achievements of bandura art abroad as part of Ukrainian musical culture, are highlighted. The research methodology involves the use of historical, axiological, musicological and cultural approaches and methods. They allowed considering the activities of bandura players in a non-national environment (historical approach), the value of their achievements in various vectors of creativity (axiological approach), and comprehensively present the contribution of bandura players to the world treasury of Ukrainian culture from the standpoint of universalism (musicological and culturological approaches). The scientific novelty of the research lies in the introduction into scientific circulation of the analysis of creative activity and achievements of bandura artists in the Ukrainian diaspora from the standpoint of universalism, priority of the type of activity or their synergy. Conclusions. In the bandura art of the diaspora during the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, the performing direction of activity has been defined as a priority (leading one). It covers different types of performance as a soloist or participant, conductor of a bandura ensemble, recording activities or a combination of some or all of these types. Auxiliary areas are such areas as design (substantiation of types of bandura models and their manufacture); composition (creation of author’s compositions, arrangements, arrangements for personal use and students or followers); pedagogical and methodical (teaching and formation of game methods); research and journalistic (publishing scientific articles, monographs and press publications); administrative and organizational (management of educational institutions, centres, management of teams, publications); managerial and organizational (preparation of concert, recording, publishing, scientific and festival events), etc.

Semantic space of “Well-Tempered Clavier” of J. S. Bach as a basis of the performing concept

The relevance of the article is due to the issue of formation in a modern multicultural space of the new image of the executor — the carrier of new senses and cultural memory, as well as need for creative comprehension of the world treasury of musical art in the artistic realities of modernity and research on the specifics of its modern performing versions.
 The purpose of the article is to outline the determinants and the specifics of the semantic space of “Well-Tempered Clavier” of J. S. Bach as conceptual basis of the performing concept.
 The methodology of the article is based on the principles of a comparative approach, which enables the use of research tools for cultural studies and musicology, in particular historical, historical-contextual, genre, hermeneutical and semiological methods and approaches.
 The results. The article outlines the following factors of conceptual polyphony of “Well-Tempered Clavier” as accumulation and artist experience of reflection and protecting the world in symbolic forms, the significance of the synthesis of arts and the unity of emotion, image and symbol on the parameters of baroque aesthetics, the connection of “Well-Tempered Clavier” with the creativity of the artist, resonance of symbolic forms with axiological structures of historical and cultural epochs. The article substantiates the significance in pluralistic symbolic field of the works: semantics of tonality and tempo, which acts as a construction of performing chronotope; sacred melos with perceptually fixed semantics, means of embodiment of which is citing, representation as complementary unity, allusion-variable reproduction; numeric symbolism; rhetorical figures, sound treatment — visualization of the musical process; fixed in the context of European art semantics — in particular “mirror in the mirror” (on micro — and macro levels of the of the music text organization); the genre “ambivalence”, which determines the superposition of different variants of “genre’s memory” and enables the creation of an artistic-reflective arch between the era of Baroque and postmodernism, designated be the leveling of the genre.
 The scientific topicality of the article is due to the clarification and systematization of representations regarding the specifics of the semantic field of “Well-Tempered Clavier” of J. S. Bach and the positioning of conceptual polyphony of the work as the basis of performing concepts and text.
 The practical significance of article is determined by a direct possibility of applying research results in the performing practice.
 Conclusion. Performance of “Well-Tempered Clavier” of J. S. Bach on the basis of the interiorization of symbolic forms is a guarantee of its performing “reading” as an embodiment of the process of being human in a cross-cultural dialogue, deploying self-reflection in the space of a representation of postmodernism paradigm as a multidimensional cultural message, in which the axiological experience of humanity is concentrated and the eternal problems of its spiritual being are actualized.

Географические открытия ХХ века: критерии выявления, динамика, роль сотрудников Института географии РАН

The analysis and synthesis of geographical discoveries on Earth in the XX century. The criteria allowing to reveal the most significant new data on a surface of the Earth influencing development of a civilization, economy and science are defined. The analysis includes about 350 discoveries. The place of the XX century in the system of periodization of geographical discoveries and their dynamics is determined. The most intensive discoveries were made in relatively peaceful years (in 1931–1940 and 1951–1960) in the polar regions and in the world ocean. The contribution to the world treasury of discoveries of employees of the Institute of geography of RAS is specified. They play a decisive role in the identification of regional centers of glaciation in Northern Eurasia, in the discovery of many subglacial morphostructures and lake Vostok in Antarctic, underwater elevations, ridges and troughs in the world ocean, lineaments, etc. Formal parameters – the interest of modern man (the number of requests in the Russian search system Yandex) defined hierarchy of discoveries of the XX century: the archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya in 1913 (132 mln hits); Centers of origin of cultivated plants, 1926–1939 years (103 mln); the origins of the Amazon river, 1996 (91 mln); the ring structure of the Earth, 1970 (83 mln); “Black smokers” on the ocean floor, 1977 (68 mln); modern glaciation of Northern Eurasia, 1929–1958 years (68 mln); Gamburtsev mountains in Antarctica, 1958 (65 mln); Chersky ridge in the NorthEast of Siberia, 1926 (63 mln), sources of the Nile river, 1937 (54 mln); lake Vostok in Antarctica, 1955–1996 (53 mln), etc. It is shown that the geographers of the ХХ century received the baton from the past centuries. Changing and studied in detail by field and remote methods, the planet in the XXI century becomes an arena for the study of the modern, “anthropocene” portrait of the world.

Ukrainian Diaspora Bandura Players Originates from Galicia

The article deals with the sociocultural origin of many well-known bandura art representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora. The work distinguishes the personalities of the diaspora bandura players, the natives of Galicia and their achievements in the context of the study necessity actualization in performing tradition broadcast, the preservation of the performing school characteristics, etc. The purpose of the article is to study the contribution of Galician bandura players to the development of bandura art in foreign countries. The scientific novelty of the research is the systematic information introduction about the representation of Galician bandura players in the Ukrainian diaspora, their priorities in the tools, repertoires, performances, and so on. The contribution of K. Misewych, D. Honta, D. Scherbyna to popularization of bandura in Poland in the interwar period is being determined. The activities of the Yuri Singalevich Lviv Galician school are being pointed out, whose students (S. Hanushevskyi, S. Lastovich- Chulivskyi, V. Yurkevych, Z. Shtokalko, etc.) not only promoted the bandura in Galicia, but also became successful in various types of bandura activity in the Ukrainian diaspora, synthesized their skills with traditional regional bandura schools. Particularly, the natives of Galicia V. Lutsiv and B. Shark, who in the Ukrainian diaspora synthesized the regional bandura schools of performance, were noted. The article uses historical, axiological, musicological and cultural approaches and their corresponding methods, which determine the methodology of research. In particular, the historical-chronological method is used to examine the stages of bandura players artistic path; the axiological - to determine the value of their achievements, musicological and cultural methods will contribute to the multi-vector representation of Galician bandura players contribution to the world treasury of Ukrainian culture. Conclusions. It has been determined, that in the process of bandura art development in Galicia, the unification of Western and Eastern bandura schools took place, the basic directions of music instrument functioning were laid, which ideas were continued in post-war emigration.

IPTEKS SISTEM INFORMASI MANAJEMEN KEUANGAN DI DIREKTORAT JENDERAL PERBENDAHARAAN PROVINSI SULAWESI UTARA

The Ministryof Finance especially the directorate general of the treasury of North Sulawesi province, is confronted with modern treasury problems. The demands of economic development are increasingly advanced, demanding a transition from the application of past culture (manual) to the stage of digital (modern) technology. The work process in the treasury sector changes, seen from the need for financial management information systems to improve the competitive advantage of modern DGT organizations in the future in increasing transparency and accountability in managing the world treasury. The emergence of treasury and state budget (SPAN) applications and agency-level financial application systems (SAKTI) as a manifestation of the implementation of financial management information systems in the Directorate General of Treasury and work units. For state treasury management to be carried out by the treasury general directorate, it can be aligned with treasury management by other countries in the world.Keywords : Financial Management Information System, SPAN, and SAKTI

Byzantine church singing in the studies of fr. Peter Franz Krypiakevych

This article examines the historical path of the development of the Byzantine hymnography and sacred monody in the researcher’s works of fr. Petro Krypjakevych. An important role of the research of the Byzantine sacred hymnography is his study of its specific characteristics and the phenomen of the relations with ancient writing heritage. Church poetry played a major role in the development of the literature poetry, its images were used by many ukrainian writers of the XVI-XVII centuries, most of which in their profession were related with the Church, and, therefore, knew perfectly sacred hymnohraphy. Liturgical books also helped to a perfect knowledge of singin monody material. In the Byzantine hymnography the main place taked the Marian theme. The article analyzed the cultural complex of the existing forms of the liturgical singing tradition, defined existence of the expression among the sacred hymnohraphy. In the development of the Christian rite, the dramaturgy of the Theotokion texts is improved, the system of genres, which is combined by the common theme, is formed, the image of the Virgin gains the axiological completeness and becomes as the source of valuable norms in opposition to evil and hope for salvation. This explains the involvement of the Marian chants into all the spheres of the liturgical worship that allows recognizing the Theotokion as a cultural phenomenon, evidenced by the high emotional and intellectual concentration and communication within the syncretic filling all the rite levels. The investigated material by fr. Petro Krypjakevych reveals the continued interpretation of God Mother‘s image as the carrier of the core foundations of the human spirit that remains to be ideal in interpreting the various artistic and philosophical systems, based on manifesting the eternal valuable categories such as: love and compassion. That’s why the research of fr. Petro Krypjakevych is an important contribution to the world treasury of the recognition of the spiritual culture of humankind.

Nobel laureate Ilya I. Metchnikoff (1845-1916). Life story and scientific heritage.

A century of science after I. Metchnikoff’s death demonstrated the truth in many of his views and judgments in the field of immunology, pathology, bacteriology, zoology and comparative embryology. Today Metchnikoff is deservedly called the father of the theory of cellular immunity, and also a harbinger of the theo­ry of natural immunity. His work in the field of lactic acid bacteria formed the basis for an entire industry of probiotics. Metchnikoff’s doctrine of the possibility of extending human life is still relevant. This publication is one more attempt to tie the biography of the scientist with his creative legacy and his contribution in the world treasury of biological science.

Publishing of Music Liturgical Books in the Russian Émigré in the 20th Century

The edition of musical-liturgical books in Russian Abroad of the 20th century along with texts of prayer books, are not only a lawful part of a complex literature of faith, but also in a broad sense represent the native cultural heritage in the world treasury and enrich potential of the human culture. The article analyses editorial and publishing experience on distribution of the native musicalliturgical heritage within the work of the confessional publishing centre of Russian Abroad of 20th century “Roussikoum”.

To Fellow Americanists: A Letter from Slovenia

The excitements and tragedies of the events that emerged during the breakup of Yugoslavia have made me, as a historian of America, think about them from the perspective of American history. Slovene historians are mindful of the contributions that Slovenes have made to the world treasury of political thought.' One of these contributions influenced ThomasJefferson and thus the beginning of the democratic experiment that became the United States. For Slovenian schoolchildren the story of American democracy begins in Carinthia in the seventh century. In the fifth grade they learn about the ancient Slovenian state of Carinthia and about the old ritual of installation in which the duke of Carinthia received his power from the peasants. Carinthia (Karantania), which was established in the seventh century, was the first Slovene state, and the ritual installation of the duke of Carinthia that

Conventional and new thinking in defence economics

The necessity of new thinking exists in military matters, but also in what must replace military activity: institutions and policies. Their base must be confidence inspiring, their aim a world without war, with a clean environment, an equitable distribution of welfare over today's world population and over today's and all future generations. Within the framework of these restrictions welfare must be maximised. The means to attain the aim are the institutions which together may be called the Earth's management. This may be the outcome of a completed integration or it may be deliberately organised, preferably by reforms and a strengthening of the United Nations. A World Treasury and a World Police Force should be added to the present set of institutions. Authorities vested with the power to implement supranational decisions are necessary if many countries’ welfare is affected. More development assistance should be financed from savings on arms.

A World Treasury of Oral Poetry

A World Treasury of Oral Poetry

A World Treasury of Proverbs

A World Treasury of Proverbs

Davidoff, Henry. A world treasury of proverbs. New York: Random House, 1946. 526 p. $3.00

Davidoff, Henry. A world treasury of proverbs. New York: Random House, 1946. 526 p. $3.00

Toward a reasonable peace.

The postwar tasks of psychologists will be to aid in erasing animosities and rebuilding morale, to convert the victory into social benefit. There should be no annexations, indemnities, nor revenge. Reconstruction should be internationally supervised and financed by a World Treasury. Social benefits will come from co-operative use of capacities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)