St. Petersburg Court Chant and the Tradition of Eastern Slavic Church Singing

The present study examines the repertory of liturgical chant known as St. Petersburg Court Chant which emerged within the Imperial Court of St. Petersburg, Russia, and appeared in print in a number of revisions during the course of the 19th century, eventually to spread throughout the Russian Empire and even abroad. The study seeks answers to questions on the essence and composition of Court Chant, its history and liturgical background, and most importantly, its musical relationship to other repertories of Eastern Slavic chant. The research questions emerge from previous literary accounts of Court Chant (summarized in the Introduction), which have tended to be inaccurate and generally not based on critical research. The study is divided into eight main chapters. Chapter 1 provides a survey of the history of Eastern Slavic chant and the Imperial Court Chapel of St. Petersburg until 1917, with special emphasis on the history of singing traditional chant in polyphony, the status of the Court Chapel as a government authority, and its endeavours in publishing church music. Chapter 2 deals with the liturgical background of Eastern chant, the chant genres, and main repertories of Eastern Slavic chant. Chapter 3 concentrates on chant sources: it introduces the musical notations utilised, after which a typology of chant books is presented. The discussion continues with a survey of the sources of Court Chant and their content, the specimens selected for closer analysis, the comparative materials from other repertories, and ends with a commentary on some chant sources that have been excluded. The comparative sources include a specimen from around the beginning of the 12th century, a few manuscripts from the 17th century, and printed and manuscript chant books from the early 18th to early 20th century, covering the geographical area that delimits to the western Ukraine, Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod, and the Solovetsky Monastery. Chapter 4 presents the approach and methods used in the subsequent analytical comparisons. After a survey of the pitch organization of Eastern Slavic chant, the customary harmonization strategy of traditional chant polyphony is examined, according to which a method for meaningful analysis of the harmony is proposed. The method is based on the observation that the harmonic framework of chant polyphony derives from the standard pitch collection of monodic chant known as the Church Gamut, specific pitches of which form eight harmonic regions that behave like the usual tonalities of major and harmonic minor. Because of the considerable quantity of comparative chant forms, computer-assisted statistical methods are applied to the analysis of chant melodies. The primary chant forms and their respective comparative forms have been pre-processed into reduced chant prototypes and divided into redactions. The analyses are carried out by measuring the formal dissimilarities of the primary chant forms of the Court Chant repertory against each comparative form, and also by measuring the reciprocal dissimilarities of all chant versions in a redaction, the results of which are subjected to agglomerative hierarchical clustering in order to find out how the chant forms relate to each other. The dissimilarities are determined by applying a metric dissimilarity function that is based on the Levenshtein Distance. Chapter 5 provides the melodic and harmonic analyses of generic chants (chants used for multiple texts of different lengths), i.e., chants for stichera samoglasny and troparia, Chapter 6 of pseudo-generic chants (chants that are used for multiple texts but with certain restrictions), i.e., chants for heirmoi, prokeimena, and three other hymns, and Chapter 7 of non-generic chants, covering nine chants that in the Court repertory are not shared by multiple texts. The results are summarized and evaluated in Chapter 8. Accordingly, it can be established that, contrary to previous conceptions, melodically, Court Chant is in effect a full part of the wider Eastern Slavic chant tradition. Even if it is somewhat detached from the chant versions of the Synodal square-note chant books and the local tradition of Moscow, it is particularly close to chant forms of East Ukraine and some vernacular repertories from Russia. Respectively, the harmonization strategies of Court Chant do not show significant individuality in comparison with those of the available polyphonic comparative sources, the main difference being the part-writing, which generally conforms to western common practice standard, whereas the deviations from this tend to be more significant in other analysed repertories of polyphonic chant. Thus, insofar as the subsequent prevalence of Court Chant is not based on its forceful dissemination by authorities (as suggested in previous literature but for which little tangible evidence could be found in Chapter 1), in the present author’s interpretation, Court Chant attained its dominance principally because musically it was considered sufficiently traditional, and as a chant body supported by the government, was conveniently available in print in serviceable harmonizations.

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Kädessäsi on Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulun kaikkia opiskelijoita ja eri tutkintotasoja koskeva opinto-oppaan yleinen osa. Yleisessä osassa esitetään opiskelijoille välttämätöntä perustietoutta Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulusta, opiskelusta ja tutkinnoista. Muille lukijoille opas on hyvä tietolähde. Opinto-oppaan neljäs luku on opiskelujen kannalta tärkein, koska siinä määritetään sotatieteelliset oppiaineet ja niiden tavoitteet tutkintotasoittain. Opas on laadittu ensimmäistä kertaa koskemaan jokaista Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulun opiskelijaa, siviiliopiskelijat mukaan luettuna. Oppaasta löytyy tarpeellista tietoa muun muassa opintohallinnosta, opinto-oikeuksista ja opintoneuvonnasta sekä toimimisesta Santahaminan sotilasalueella. Yleisen osan lisäksi sinun on tunnettava opinto-oppaan eriytyvät osat ja niihin sisältyvät tutkintotasosi opintojaksokuvaukset. Lue opinto-oppaat huolella. Näin saat kokonaisvaltaisen kuvan tulevien vuosiesi työskentelystä ja opintojesi tavoitteista. Yksityiskohtaisempia tietoja saat kurssinjohtajalta, oman tutkintotasosi koulutussuunnittelijalta ja ainelaitoksilta. Oppaaseen on koottu opiskeluun liittyviä tärkeitä yhteystietoja helpottamaan opiskelijan arkea. Oppaasta löydät myös Santahaminan kampusalueen kartan. Jos et saa oppaasta tarvitsemaasi tietoa, tai jos jokin asia jää sinulle epäselväksi, otathan yhteyttä Opintoasiainosaston henkilökuntaan. On myös toivottavaa, että annat palautetta opinto-oppaasta Opintoasiainosaston henkilöstölle. Näin voimme kehittää opasta edelleen.

Tratamento de endometriomas ovarianos com implantes subcutâneos de ST-1435 (Elcometrina)

Objetivos: avaliar o efeito do progestínico ST 1435 (elcometrina) sobre a evolução de endometriomas ovarianos. Métodos: implantes subcutâneos contendo 50 mg da medicação foram administrados a 51 portadoras de endometriomas ovarianos, cujos volumes foram documentados por ultra-sonografia endovaginal antes e a cada intervalo de três meses após o início do tratamento. Um novo implante foi inserido ao fim de seis meses sempre que houvesse necessidade de continuação do tratamento. Resultados: na admissão, 74% das pacientes apresentavam dismenorréia, 57% dor pélvica crônica e 31% dispareunia. A intensidade da dor foi considerada incapacitante ou forte por 82% das pacientes. Um total de 924 meses de observação foi registrado durante os quatro anos de duração do estudo. O alívio da dor foi observado desde o primeiro mês de tratamento e, ao final do primeiro trimestre, nenhuma paciente referia dor incapacitante ou forte. O volume dos endometriomas foi reduzido em 86% das pacientes. Em 45% o volume normal do ovário foi restabelecido. Em 41% a redução de volume foi incompleta e em 14% das pacientes não houve redução do volume ovariano. Setenta e sete por cento das pacientes apresentaram amenorréia durante o tratamento. Os efeitos adversos mais comuns foram redução da libido (21%) e peso nos membros inferiores (14%). Um ano após a suspensão do tratamento, 33% das pacientes mantinham-se assintomáticas, ao passo que 28% tiveram recidivas com menos de três meses após a suspensão. Trinta e nove por cento optaram pela continuidade no uso do implante para prolongar a amenorréia. Conclusão: elcometrina é eficiente em provocar a regressão e reabsorção de endometriomas ovarianos sem apresentar alguns dos efeitos colaterais dos outros tratamentos.

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