DOI: 10.36871/hon.202004008
Authors
N. Yu. Plotnikova
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russian Federation; State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract
The author's discovery of 2012 four-part choral concertos by Nikolay Diletsky, an outstanding composer of the Baroque period, completed in 36, broadened the understanding of Russian Baroque music and the partes concerto genre. This was the starting point for preparing the works for publication (32 concertos are currently composed in full four-part scores). The article reveals the main stages of this path. Special attention is paid to source studies: searching in various archives in Russia and abroad for manuscripts containing Diletsky's concertos, attribution, dating and description of manuscript sources. Analyzing the paleographic features of manuscripts, their composition, the author makes assumptions and conclusions about the chronology and geography of Diletsky's concertos in Russia, about their demand in the singing repertoire of the last third of the XVIIth — late XVIIIth centuries, about the degree of popularity of certain concertos. Of particular importance is the discovery of the earliest manuscripts, which can be attributed to lifetime. The article examines various singing centers in Russia where manuscripts with Diletsky's concertos were created or preserved: Tobolsk, Novy Valaam and Yaroslavl, the largest center of the middle XVIIIth century.
Keywords
Russian musical Baroque, partes concerto, Nikolay Diletsky, archives, manuscripts
