Historical keyboard music interpreting in Ukraine: contexts, performance and instruments
Historical keyboard music interpreting in Ukraine: contexts, performance and instruments

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article. The article deals with analysis of the development of the performance of keyboard music in Ukraine in the historical and socio-cultural context. Methodology of the research lies in the source study, application of systematic analysis and the historical-cultural and comparative methods. Scientific novelty of the work consists in the study of the sound-aesthetic features of the period keyboard musical instruments in the context of historical epochs and national schools. Conclusions. The music listener’s great interest in early music encouraged the development of the stylistics of the historically informed performance practice in Ukraine. Academics and students in Ukraine often are interested in the keyboard music, which extend across chronological boundaries and embrace music intended for different keyboard instruments. The analysis carried out in the study clearly shows the connection between the formation of the sound aesthetics and the performing technique on keyboard instruments with the technical and sonority specifics of the period musical instruments. Therefore, there is an obvious need for a contextual approach to the restoration and making of historical instruments copies, the awareness of both technical and a sound aesthetic features of instrument in the historical and regional specifics context.

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