Traditions of Church Music of Orthodoxy in the Chamber Vocal Work of Ukrainian Classical Composers

In the interaction of cultural and art study approaches, the influence of Orthodox church music on the historical retrospective of academic singing art of Ukraine in the context of national identity is studied.It is noted that Orthodox music developed in interaction with centuries-old folk melodies and became the basis for the development of professional musical culture of Ukrainians.It is researched that professional chamber and vocal creativity has absorbed all the achievements of spiritual heritage, folklore, oral folk art, managed to accumulate, synthesize and reproduce them in a new musical style.The influence of church music of Ukrainian Orthodoxy on the development of academic chamber and vocal music is highlighted, which became the driving force in the formation of the aesthetic culture of the music of our people, contributed to the awareness of national identity by means of musical art.The issues of the relationship between church music and the national "soul" of culture, which are currently not fully disclosed and are actualized by the modern religious situation in Ukraine, are also indicated.The scientific research was aimed at characterizing the cultural and historical presence of church music in the academic space of musical culture of Ukraine; to highlight the mutual influence of the sacred music of Ukrainian Orthodoxy on the development of academic chamber and vocal music of the XVII-XX centuries, which nourished the cultural identity of Ukrainians; to define the relationship of academic chamber and vocal music with the Word, which for centuries has saturated the entire aesthetic sphere of Ukrainian musical culture with high meanings.The source base and the degree of elaboration of the problem in the scientific literature are analyzed; the influence of the traditions of sacred music of Ukrainian Orthodoxy on the development of academic vocal art of the XVII-XX centuries is studied; A musicological and artistic-aesthetic analysis of musical samples in relation to the topic of scientific research is carried out.As a conclusion, it should be noted that professional academic vocal music was formed on the basis of spiritual heritage, folklore, folk oral art, managed to accumulate, rethink and reproduce them in new musical forms.Both in the 17th-20th centuries, and to this day, Orthodox church music and secular professional chamber and vocal creativity fully function in symbiosis, mutually enriching and strengthening each other, which stimulates the processes of national identity and leaves a characteristic imprint on the spiritual culture of Ukraine.