Factors of the genre mix and choral sonorism within the embodiment of the imagery of secular works of V. Stepurko Cover Image

Фактори жанрового міксту й хорової сонорики у втіленні образності світських творів В. Степурка
Factors of the genre mix and choral sonorism within the embodiment of the imagery of secular works of V. Stepurko

Author(s): Yaroslava Bardashevska
Subject(s): Music, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Art
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: genre modeling; figurative-semantic principles; choral composition; drama; stylistic features;

Summary/Abstract: The рurpose of the article is to determine the genre and stylistic features of samples from the sphere of profane art and to identify distinctive perspectives in the interpretation of sound matter based on the analysis of musical meanings and images of the secular acapelic choral works of V. Stepurko. Methodology. Since the research concerns one area of creative works of one artist, the methodology of personological researches, in particular biographical, hermeneutical and phenomenological methods are used in the work to identify the basic setups and their development in the composer's creative works. Also applied methods developed in the field of art appreciation and cultural studies: stylistic in close relation to the analytical and structural, integral analysis method, choir, with the help of which we study the issues of choral timbre and sonorism as important factors in the dramaturgy of choral compositions. The scientific novelty of the work is to outline the concepts of the secular choral works of V. Stepurko, and on this basis - the genre priorities of this sphere of creative works. The characterization of the individual choral style of the composer, which is traced in the secular acapella choirs, allows us to comprehend the specificity of the inclusion of his choral works in the contemporary Ukrainian art and contributes to the formation of an aggregate picture of the modern Ukrainian music. Conclusions. The artist uses numerous stylistic devices from the arsenal of various historical periods and styles that provide freedom for the embodiment of intentions in the tideway of genre modeling. And the approach to the possibilities of using sound modes outside the verbal-poetic basis, on the one hand, has an effect of the typical tendency of the twentieth century to synchronization of the vocal and choral means, on the other hand - a new idea of the possibility of embodiment of the general laws of being by searching for an original equivalence of sound material for them.