Ascension John Ioannovich

(1838 - Deceased). He graduated from the course at the Moscow Theological Academy. He owns capital research on the technical development of ancient Russian Orthodox chants, flag, Greek, Bulgarian and Kievan. He tries to show a variety of melodic turns and figures of church chants of the larger melodic units, . of the entire music and simple groups, . ie holding method, . applicable to the singing of Gregorian (Catholic) and Western music and causing a lot of confusion in applying it to the Russian church chants, . with their non-symmetrical rhythm and other features,
. Nevertheless, the works of the Ascension give a lot of interesting and new facts and views in the study of ancient Russian Orthodox chants. Works Voznesensky: "On the church singing the Greek Orthodox Church of Russia. Singing the great banner ", Issue I (Kiev, 1887); the same," Big (and small) singing the famous ", Issue II. Printed music applications (Riga, 1889); "Osmoglasnye chants of the last three centuries, the Orthodox Russian Church. Volume I - "Kiev sung a hymn" (technical construction). (Kiev, . 1888); Issue II - "The Bulgarian sung a hymn in Russia" (Kiev, . 1891); Issue III - "singing the Greek in Russia" (Kiev, . 1893), Issue IV - "Linking osmoglasiya chants of Kiev, . Bulgarian and Greek with explanatory text "(Riga, . 1893), "singing of the Orthodox Church in South-western Russia on the musical-linear Irmologion XVII and XVIII centuries." (Kiev, . 1890), "On the singing of the Orthodox churches of the Greek East from ancient to modern times", "On the present-day needs and problems of Russian church singing" (Riga, . 1891), "Public Reading of the church singing" (Issue I, . Riga, . 1892; Issue II, . Riga, . 1893; Issue III, . Kostroma, . 1895),
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