Church music in cultural and spiritual life of population rates in Slovakia

Анотація

The inhabitants of Spiš live under two large symbols. Under Spiš Castle, which in the past represented secular power, and under the hill of St. Martin, on which the Spišská Kapitula switches off. This Spiš Chapter, which represents the ecclesiastical authority of the territory of the Spiš Diocese, is also called the Little Spiš Vatican. In the vicinity of Spiš Castle, the Spiš Chapter is still a living institution, which is not only a historical monument, but still a living church institution. It is a former independent village next to Spišské Podhradie, which since 1948 has become part of the town of Spišské Podhradie. It developed from the Spiš post office, which was founded in 1198 by King Imrich. Even then, under the postman Matej (1234 - 1258), the Chapter School was established here at the Cathedral of St. Martin of Tours, and according to the guidelines of the Third Lateran Council (1179) and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), canons - teachers - lecturers and cantors worked here. Since then, music and especially church music have been cultivated and developed here. The Golden Age was represented by the Priest‘s Seminary from 1779 and the Teachers‘ Academy from 1819, which educated not only priests, teachers, but also cantors, ie church musicians. The songbook Cantus Catholic was written here in 1655 in the most famous songbook for the whole of Slovakia. In this songbook, there are church songs in Latin, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak. We also study songs with Eastern elements from the Cyril and Methodical tradition. The most important compositions of this songbook continue to live in the current church songbook called the Unified Catholic Songbook, which was prepared for Slovakia by the national artist Mikuláš Schneider Trnavský.

At present, church music in the Spiš Chapter is cultivated and developed at the Institute of Sacred Art of the Theological Institute of the Faculty of Theology in Košice, the Catholic University in Ružomberok in Bishop Ján Vojtaššák‘s Priestly Seminary in the Spiš Chapter in Spišske Podhradie.