ФОРТЕПІАННИЙ РОМАНС: ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЖАНРОВОЇ СТИЛІСТИКИ

Abstract

In the studies of Ukrainian scholars about the piano music the special attention to the genre of piano romance was not drawn. Therefore, the article attempts to investigate the figurative and stylistic features of this genre in the piano creativity of Ukrainian composers.The genre fund of the Ukrainian piano music is rich and diverse. Lyrical instrumental genres occupy an outstanding place in it. Piano romance is similar to piano song, which is widely represented in works of the Ukrainian composers of different generations. A song was mentally closer to them. It is noted that the vocal romance, which originates from the author’s song of the urban tradition, differed in certain stylistic peculiarities, which were partly transferred to a piano piece. The article deals with the pieces named “Romance” written by Russian and Ukrainian composers of the second part of the nineteenth century to our time. It has been mentioned that piano romances were more characteristic of the representatives of the Russian national school and the Ukrainian composers from Naddnipryanshchyna. The Galician composers didn’t pay much attention to this genre; Ukrainian folk songs in piano arrangement prevailed in their work.The analyzed piano romances composed by the Ukrainian authors are the examples of romantic (M. Kalachevskiy, M. Lysenko) and neo-romantic (M. Lastovetskiy) national styles and the corresponding figurative-emotional circle. The main peculiarities of the genre stylistics of these works are: sincerity of feelings, exaggerated expression and some sentimentality at the same time. Singing is combined with narration, or recitative. For the development of musical material such techniques as sequencing, the presence of several climaxes, harmonic-texture variation, agogic nuances, three-part form, sometimes with contrasting parity of parts are typically used. Thanks to these piano romances are often performed in concert programs; they are popular in the educational repertoire.