„Analele Putnei”, XVII, 2021, 1, p. 303–316. YEVGENIYA IGNATENKO PUTNA MUSICAL SCHOOL AND TRADITION OF UKRAINIAN- BELARUSIAN CHURCH CHANT OF THE 16 TH –18 TH CENTURIES: SOME POINTS OF INTERACTION The connection between the Moldavian and Ukrainian-Belarusian chant traditions of the 16 th –18 th centuries seems very logical, given the territorial proximity of the Moldavian and Ukrainian lands and their belonging to a common Christian cultural space. This assumption is supported by the political, economic and ecclesiastical contacts established between the neighboring peoples of the time. At the same time, it is not easy to prove this connection at the level of the chant repertoires. Firstly, the comparative analysis of chant repertoires is complicated by the use of different musical notations. The famous manuscripts of the Putna Musical School of the 16 th century are written in Middle Byzantine notation 1 . Znamenna semeiography was used in the Ukrainian and Belarusian lands in the 16 th century. Few manuscripts of this notation type have survived, and today it is impossible to 1 The Moldavian chant tradition of the 16 th century is represented by the following musical manuscripts: M 350: Anthology of 1511, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Collection of Schukin, ms. 350. Other 14 folios of the same manuscript are kept in the Library of the Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Collection of Jatsymirskij, ms. 13.3.16. Autograph of Evstatie the Precentor of Putna; M 1102: Anthology of 1515, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Collection of the Synode, ms. 1102. Autograph of Evstatie the Precentor of Putna; P 56–I: Anthology of around 1520, Putna Monastery, ms. 56/544/576 I, fol. 1 r –84 v ; Lm 258: Anthology of 1527, Library of the Leimonos Monastery, Lesbos, ms. 258. Autograph of the Deacon Macarie from the Dobrovăț Monastery; Iași I–26: Anthology of 1545, Central University Library “Mihai Eminescu”, Iași, ms. I–26. Autograph of Antonie Hieromonk the Precentor; Dg 1886: Anthology of 1550–1575, Dragomirna Monastery, ms. 1886; B 283: Anthology of 1550–1575, Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, ms. slav. 283; B 284: Anthology of 1550–1575, Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, ms. slav. 284; Sophia 816: Anthology of 1550–1575, Museum for History and Ecclesiastical Archaeology, Sophia, ms. 816; Lz 12: Anthology, before 1570, University Library “Karl Marx”, Leipzig, ms. 12; Lv 1060: Anthology of the 16 th century, Historical Museum, Lviv, ms. 1060; P 56–II: Fragment of the first half of the 15 th century from the ms. 56/544/576 I, fol. 85 r –160 v , Putna Monastery; M 1345: Anthology of the 15 th century, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Collection of Barsov, ms. 1345. See: Maria Alexandru, Romania and Byzance après Byzance: the case of musical culture (under publishing); Anne Pennington, Music in Sixteenth-Century Moldavia: New Evidence, in „Oxford Slavonic Paper”, new series, 11, 1978, p. 64–83; Anne Pennington, Seven Akolouthiai from Putna, in „Studies in Eastern Chant”, IV, 1979, p. 112–133; Dimitri Conomos, The Monastery of Putna and the Musical Tradition of Moldavia in the Sixteenth Century, in „Dumbarton Oaks Papers”, 36, 1982, p. 15–28; Titus Moisescu, Prolegomene bizantine. Muzică bizantină în manuscrise și carte veche romȃnească, București, 1985; Titus Moisescu, Muzica bizantină în spațiul cultural romȃnesc, București, 1996; Școala de la Putna, in „Acta Musicae Byzantinae”, VIII, 2005 etc.