REVIEW OF CHORAL CREATIVITY PROTESTANT CHURCHES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION OF KYIV REGION BOUNDARIES OF THE XX – XXI CENTURIES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the review of choral creativity of Protestant (Baptist) churches of Kyiv and Kyiv region of the XX – XXI centuries. The purpose of work: to highlight the basic choral liturgical traditions of the Baptist Church and outline the ways of their transformation. Scientific novelty lies in the identification of Protestant (Baptist) choral singing as one of the manifestations of the Christian liturgical tradition. In domestic musicology, for the first time, a review of conductor-choral and composer education was made, and its founders were indicated in Protestant (Baptist) seminaries of Kyiv region. The urgency of the problem. For various reasons, Ukrainian Protestant music is still little known not only to a wide range of listeners, but also to specialists. In isolated cases, it is almost not identified in special areas of Ukrainian musicological scientific literature among other traditions. Therefore, the relevance of the study is due to the importance of synthetic understanding of the choral singing of the Protestant churches of the Kyiv region of the chosen period and its unique place in the history of the development of choral art. Conclusions. Historical and political events that developed in Ukraine in the early 90s of the twentieth century became the basis for the active development of choral singing in the Baptist environment. Opportunities to obtain state higher musical education, which became available to Protestants during these years, gave the church high-class specialists and the opportunity to develop music faculties in the Theological seminaries of the Kyiv region and professionally train regents and singers. This, in turn, influenced the professional level and performance skills of Baptist church choirs and made it possible to overcome the crisis of choral singing that arose in the early 20s of the XXI century, preserve the sound quality, enrich the repertoire and technical capabilities of the performing groups of the Kyiv region, which participated in many state (concert) and church (liturgical) events.