Music hymnography creation of Ivan the Terrible

With the opening of Ivan the Terrible “creation” chants in the 70-80 years of XIX century a lot of statements about the nature of Russian tsar's compositions have been accumulated in historiography. found that in old russian manuscripts two stichera cycles of his authorship were recorded - St. Peter the Metropolitan of Moscow and Vladimir Icon of the Blessed Virgin. But, as it turned out, almost every one of hymnographical (poetic) text of sticherons has two musical variants - in the conventional Znamenny style and in fairly new to Ivan the Terrible era Putevoy style. The author of this article, considering both direct and indirect evidence, expresses his point of view that tsar himself adapted his stichera cycles the only Znameny variant. This vatiant is fixed in the “trinity” manuscript collection written by hand of famous master Login Shishelov as well as in other manuscript. Also with time researchers began to attribute many chants to Ivan the terrible authorship. According to the author, these chants are not. The author of paper based on tradition of designation authorship in Old Russian manuscripts clarified circle of chants witch can be reliably considered as belonging to Ivan the Terrible heritage.