Фольклорні прояви у ладо-гармонічній лексиці українських композиторів радянської доби
Folklore features in harmonic scale language of Soviet Ukrainian composers

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of the article is to determine the principles informing the incorporation of intonation patterns of Ukrainian harmonic scale language and to analyze the evolutionary developments in Ukrainian Soviet professional music. Methodology. In her research, the author used some universally applied methods, including comparative and typological analysis (to identify similar and distinctive approaches employed by the composers as they adopted the Ukrainian folklore sources); historical analysis (to determine the stages of composers’ creative development as well as to analyse genre and stylistic processes in Soviet Ukrainian music); and systematization (to identify some common patterns characterizing convergences in the works of Soviet composers). Scientific novelty of this research is that it gives a detailed analysis of the development of the Soviet composers’ harmonic language that strongly relied on Ukrainian folk melodies. The article presents the first attempt to analyze the principles characterizing the diatonic system’s harmonic features that formed the core of Ukrainian folk music and influenced the development of Ukrainian Soviet professional music. At the same time, it argues that application of parameters of major/minor harmonic system (in analysis of authentic folklore music sources) is irrelevant and unfounded; even though this system adopted, to a certain extent, some diatonic system’s principles, it is not able to unleash the full potential of the harmonic system and diversity of musical arts. Conclusions. To sum up the arguments above, it could be argued that national distinctions in a common diatonic harmonic structure are logical and natural. Within the natural scale variability, the amplitudes of such deviations prove to be an indicator of originality of the national music cultures. This originality is manifested not only in the correlation between intonations and intervals in harmonic steps. In some selected musical works, this correlation exists along with other critical features of a musical language, including functional elements of harmonic steps and their combinations that require further scientific analysis.

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