MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN «GRAMMAR OF MUSIC» BY MYKOLA DYLETSKYI

Abstract

For the first time, the purpose of the study is a systemic description of information on musical instruments, experience of playing them, recommendations for performers mentioned in the edu-cational and reformist work by Ukrainian author Mykola Dyletskyi Grammar of Music (1723). The methodology of our studies is also based on the interpretation of selected materials; their explanation decrees hermeneutic studies on music development. The anthropological approach helps to understand M. Dyletskyi’s efforts to popularize his innovative ideas, use of various peda-gogical means, in particular, organological information. The scientific novelty of the article is achieved through the study of data on musical instruments in M. Dyletskyi’s treatise, the placement of new accents, the definition of his work as an important medieval source in organo-logy and musical iconography. Conclusions. The interpretation of instrumental and vocal music in the Metropolia of Kyiv on the same footing helped M. Dyletskyi to better explain his ideas regarding the introduction of high-tech forms of pan-European musical notation to the reader, to put the concept of modern musical practice in layman’s terms, as well as facilitated the rapid learning of musical and grammatical intricacies and their specific concepts by students. The treatise was useful for singers and regents of the Eastern Slavic territories, instrumentalists, composers who wrote for them; it facilitated their special education, promoted musical instru-ments, the need for mastering them. Appeal to such information pushed Grammar forward as a reputable means of combating routine and amateurism, a source on organology and musical iconography, a model of pedagogy. This convinces of the importance of M. Dyletskyi again, and references to musical instruments speak for their widespread distribution in ancient Ukraine and Belarus, systematize the colorful pages of their musical art.