BACHELOR’S MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AS A AS PREVIOUS SCHOOL SONGS COLLECTIONS THE LAST THIRD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Authors:   Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University, Department of Musicology and Piano, MEDVEDYK Halyna 
Published: January 2024

Relevance of the study. Prerequisites for the emergence of the practice of printing special school singers (60-ies of the XIX - the first third of the twentieth century) in Ukrainian scientific thought have been little studied. Today there is no music-bibliographic information base on these publications, analysis of their repertoires, no creation of song lyrics. Only a small number of these singers have been partially investigated so far. Before the first printed singers appeared, the primary function of codifying song lyrics was performed by private handwritten singers who composed in the 18th and first half of the 19th century. Most of them have not been investigated either. The subject of the study is to draw attention to the manuscript singers of the 18th – mid 19th centuries. which were concluded and transcribed by bachelors (students) and regarded as having become the prototype of the first printed school singers in the second half of the nineteenth century. The main focus is on the unique Galician-Volyn manuscript singer (compendium), which included parts of various baccalaureate collections created for the period 1759–1821. The manuscript is kept in the Ivan Franko Archive (Institute of Literature of Ukraine. No. 4791). Methodology of the study. The basis of the study consists of: the method of historical reconstruction, applies the historical review analysis and synthesis are applied. Scientific novelty. The article analyzes a unique handwritten school singer from 1759 to 1821. Among the scribes and owners of some parts of the collection, as evidenced by marginalia, were bachelors from the cities and villages of Galicia and Volhynia was presented to Ivan Franko by a well-known Enlightenment figure in Galicia, Bohdar (Bohdan) Kyrchiv. circulation of important marginal records of the collection, evaluation of the singer’s content, analysis of individual song texts, etc. The overwhelming majority of analytical material was introduced before the scientific circulation, and some secular texts were first considered by Ivan Franko. Conclusions. The source analysis of the handwritten singer, which included fragments of several manuscript collections of 1759 – 1821, allows marginal records to confirm: during the XVIII - the first half of the nineteenth century. The prerequisites for the appearance of the first printed school singers were gradually formed. This is evidenced by the song repertoire of the collections, partly by their structure, the need and the interest of bachelors in creating handwritten singers for their own needs. It is remarkable that this evolutionary path from the manuscript to the print edition has passed through the centuries Ukrainian literary writers, collectors of spiritual songs, the first printed singers with texts of secular (folk). In the second half of the nineteenth century. the need for the creation of printed school singers, whose genesis has been documented since the beginning of the eighteenth century, has finally matured.