Theory and history of singing culture. Tutorial

In the training manual, singing culture is represented from the point of view of the cultural fislosophical approach as a complex systemic phenomenon, including three stages (folk, spiritual, professional) and two components: spiritual and material. The spiritual component manifests itself in turn to the secrets of the human internal organization, a transcendental mysteries, it was often associated with chaos, its spontaneously generating and destructive principles. The material component of singing culture, expressed in the formation of numerous genres, the appearance of works on singing, learning technologies, etc., found a connection with the order (cosmos) The generalization of the views on singing culture in science showed the attitude to the singing sound as its founding element directly related to human being, and made it possible to state that in modern culture there are two different understandings of sound: Western and Eastern. The considered polar paradigms of singing sound contributed to the identification of its universal feature-a procedural-dynamic nature, the cause of which is an immanent source (the idea of ​​a number, the sound of aum) associated with the phenomenon of the “inexpressible”. The work formed a new generalized idea of ​​singing culture, which is based on the idea of ​​the presence and preservation of an “inexpressible”.
The manual is addressed to students of musical higher educational institutions, and is also of interest to philosophers, culturalists, musicologists, vocalists, teachers and a wide range of readers