GENRE-STYLISH TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE VOCAL LYRICS OF COMPOSERS OF THE DNIEPER REGION OF THE 1920S–1930S

Abstract

The socio-cultural conditions of the development of Ukrainian musical culture in the 1920s-1930s, which determined the genre and style transformations in chamber and vocal creativity, are considered. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been two significant trends in chamber and vocal music of Ukraine, which were based on: 1) the rooting of the national tradition;2) the development of the achievements of European musical composition. The first trend, founded by M. Lysenko and his followers, was presented by the work of M. Verykivskyi, H. Verovka, P. Kozytskyi, M. Koliada, V. Kostenko, L. Revutskyi, P. Senytsia, H. Khotkevych, etc. Representatives of the second trend are V. Kosenko, L. Lisovskyi, B. Lyatoshinskyi, M. Roslavets, M. Skorulskyi, F. Yakymenko, etc. – relied on European experience, represented by post-romantic, impressionistic, neoclassical, expressionist, avant-garde trends, etc. In the 1920s and 1930s, both the national idea and the European principles of domestic chamber and vocal creativity underwent radical changes due to the establishment of a totalitarian regime and the need to urgently introduce Soviet ideologies into the themes and imagery of compositions. This prompted the reproduction of national themes, revolutionary pathos, heroic images, proper stylistics and expressiveness in vocal lyrics. The genre’s inconsistency with the new requirements for revolutionary, mass and democratic art, as well as the search for the necessary forms, means and principles of their implementation caused a crisis of chamber and vocal creativity in the 1930s. Dnieper artists have not worked on these genres for almost a decade. These aspects of the development of Ukrainian Art and the creativity of individual artists of this period were highlighted in many works of domestic scientists, however, the genre and style transformations of chamber and vocal music by composers of the Dnieper region have not yet become the subject of separate research.