Elucidative Notes on the "putevoi raspev" Expression

The present paper, Elucidative Notes on the "putevoi raspev" Expression, provides a new view on the impact cultivated music of the Byzantine tradition of Putna monastery had upon Russian religious music, an area which attracted the attention of other researchers in the past. While several Romanian researchers, particularly Gheorghe Ciobanu, Octavian Lazar Cosma, Sebastian Barbu-Bucur, have put forward the idea that some religious chants to be found in the old Russian codices (17th-18th centuries), known under the name of "putevoi raspev", together with its specific semiography, the so-called "putevoi" notation, originate in the monastery of Putna of North Moldavia, this paper introduces the results obtained by Russian researchers (in the works of N. Uspenski, M. Bradshnikov, I. Keldish), as well as by Anne E. Pennington, according to whom the "putevoi raspev" is but an inseparable part, the more elaborated version, of the "znamennii raspev", due to the introduction of the syncopations and the augumentation of its values. Although the "znamennii raspev" is basically Byzantine religious music, it took shape by mingling with lay musical traditions, and gained national values, which became more prominent with the passage of time. The "putevoi" notation also has its origin in the "znamennii" notation using specific signs to mark the new peculiarities of the "putevoi raspev" chants.

Violina Galaicu