THE INFLUENCE OF CHURCH ARCHITECTURE ON THE ACOUSTICS INSIDE THE CATHEDRALS

Yuri Ustinov1,   Nikolay Volkov2,  Dmitry Degtev3, Sergey Nikitin4, OlgaKalacheva5

1Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Voronezh State Technical University, 20 years of October street, 84,Voronezh, Russia, E-mail: ust@vgasu.vrn.ru
2Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Voronezh State Technical University, 20 years of October street, 84,Voronezh, Russia, E-mail: volkne@bk.ru
3Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Voronezh State Technical University, 20 years of October street, 84,Voronezh, Russia, E-mail: dm.degtev.79@mail.ru
4Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Voronezh State Technical University, 20 years of October street, 84,Voronezh, Russia, E-mail: niksal76@mail.ru
5Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor,  Branch of Rostov State Transport University in Voronezh, Uritskogo street 75a, Voronezh, Russia, E-mail: 21x413@mail.ru

Abstract

The article discusses the features of church singing in religious culture in general and in Orthodoxy in particular. This aspect determines the relevance of studying various sections of the resurgent and developing Russian Orthodox culture: everyday life, art, religious rituals, including the features of worship and liturgy.

It is shown that church singing is an important component of Orthodox culture, the study of which allows not only to determine its structural and functional characteristics, but also to consider the forms of influence of singing culture on cultural genesis. The authors come to the conclusion that church singing is a structure-forming part of the Orthodox tradition, contributing to the transfer of sociocultural relations, landmarks, values, categories, elements.

The study revealed the dynamic characteristics of the bifunctional text of church chants, due to the triunity of functioning levels: static, symbolic and dynamic. This article conducted a scientific systematization of the forms, types, styles and methods of singing used in the divine services of the Russian Orthodox Church, and revealed their significance in the modern singing culture.

Keywords: Church, music, society, priest, charity.


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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of SOCIOINT 2019- 6th International Conference on Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, 24-26 June 2019- İstanbul, TURKEY

ISBN: 978-605-82433-6-1