Revealing Chronotopic Thinking in Georgian Traditional and Professional Choral Music

Abstract

Through the categories of time and space, a person has formed his/her own model of the universe since ancient times in which there are revealed the perception of the world and understanding of reality, the system of appearances due to the current processes. As it is known, the first ideas about time and space were formed in the Palaeolithic. Different perceptions of chronotopes (time and space) were expressed through different signs and symbols in all areas of culture. Accordingly, the form and meaning of symbols and signs have been changed according to the society's attitude towards the outer world. In archaic society, there was only one form of worldview - myth, where the categories of time and space are homogeneous and represent an indivisible whole. There was the creation of the world, sacred time and space to the mythological past and which were attributed to inexplicable, special power. Concepts were gradually replaced by scientific aspects and special attention was paid to time-spatial aspects from the 20^th century. They were also interested in musical art with its philosophical and artistic aspects.

The purpose of the research is to reveal the peculiarities of chronotopic thinking in Georgian traditional and professional choral music. Accordingly, it discusses widespread ideas about time-space categories; Middle Eastern, Western European and Georgian mythological chronotopic artistic-philosophical approaches are distinguished. The principles of their reflection in Georgian singing folklore and the professional choral music emerging from it are analyzed on the example of the choirs of Niko Sulkhanishvili, a classic of the genre.