UNIVERSALISM OF THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY: MODES OF MUSICOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article summarized the contemporary musicological discourse on the specifics of the universalism of a creative personality. The purpose of the article is to identify the leading trends of modern musicological knowledge in the field of comprehending the essence and specifics of the universalism of a musician, in particular a pianist. It is determined that the actualization of the issue of universalism of the creative personality of a musician is determined by the diversity of modern artistic, in particular, performance practice and modern trends in understanding the phenomenon of artistic activity in a systematic perspective from the standpoint of synthesizing the achievement if the humanities. The article emphasizes the pluralism of research vectors and the semantic lability of the definition of the concept of «universalism of the creative personality», the variability of its systematic comprehension, as well as the importance of projecting this issue into the socio-cultural context. The priority importance of the trend of comprehending the specifics of the composer’s creative activity, marked by research pluralism, is revealed with the importance of a systematic approach and an activity perspective, which is an update of the artist functions in the parameters of historical and cultural epochs, differentiation of the artist’s types and conceptual and expressive parameters of his work. The author emphasizes the formation of musicological discourse mode related to highlighting the specifics of the activities of representatives of cultural loci 0 both the musical culture of the East and local spaces in the context of Ukrainian national culture. The tendency to intensify the study of the performing component of the musician’s universalism, in particular in the genre-stylistic and technical-expressive dimensions of creative activity, is revealed. New vectors of comprehending the musician’s universalism are outlined, due to the influence of digitalization on the creative process and the intensification of the phenomenon of «open work» as impulses for the creation of new, universalizing horizons of the performer’s self-realization, as well as determined by the relevance of the study of the universal – multidimensional activity of contemporary representatives of world musical art in the areas of reviving the importance of the cultural and artistic heritage of mankind, in particular the Baroque heritage.