GENRE AND STYLE DIMENSIONS OF THE POETICS OF “OUT OF GRAVITATION” BY YULIA GOMELSKA

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of the poetics of the cantata «Out of Gravitation» by Yu. Gomelska. It is emphasized that the work reflects the tendency of contemporary chamber vocal music to test new conceptual, genre-style and expressive constructs, as well as the composer’s tendency to post-modern intersemiotics, risomes and comprehensive freedom of artistic thinking and speech. The semantic multilevelness of the instrumental and vocal parts in the work is revealed. It is shown that the searching intentions inherent in the concept of the work are reflected in the diffusion of the spheres of academic and pop vocals, in the violation of the boundaries of the academic tradition of instrumental performance by use of innovation means of expression. The anomalous and non-systemic worldview is allusively reflected in Yu. Gomelska’s «Out of Gravitation» in the absence of tonal, harmonic and rhythmic supports. Allusions to the aesthetic constructs of Romanticism (features of the ballad, reproduction of the concept of the romantic circle) and Expressionism (going beyond academic vocalism, the importance of the recitative principle, speech sound production, speech, saturation of the vocal part with glissandos, intonational neutral constructions, extreme nuances of dynamics, etc.) and jazz (prioritizing rhythm in the palete of expressive means, the importance of swing allusions and syncopated rhythmnicities). The significance of the logic of contrast-unity as one of the foundations of the poetics of the work is revealed. It is emphasized that the structural integrity of the number structure of «Out of Gravitation» if ensured by the arches between the sections, which are formed due to the leading importance if the intonations of the flute and piano (in particular, improvisational constructions, tertian «wobbles» of the flute, etc.). It is emphasized that the absence of a clearly expressed finalization, dissolution of sound, blurring of chronotopic boundaries creates the effect of an open work that resonates with the paradigmatic features of postmodern culture and reproduces the image of Human on the margin of existence, marked by the loss of spiritual supports.