Abstract

Volodymyr Mykhaylovych Ptushkin is a contemporary Ukrainian composer, representative of the Kharkiv composer’s school, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Professor of the Composition and Instrumentation Department of the Kharkiv National Art University, Head of this Department. The purpose of this article is to represent the structural peculiarities of the contemporary composer V. Ptushkin’s piano cycles, the features of their composer writing, an over view of the music expression means, the performing tasks and piano problems in these works master process.The musical and dramatic peculiarities of Volodymyr Ptushkin’s piano suites are depicted in the presented work. It is the music for Moliere’s drama “Bourgeo is in the nobility”, music for the work of Jonathan Swift “Gulliver and Lilliputies”, the music for the William Shakespeare’s work “Windsor Pustules” and piano suite “Theatrical kaleydoscope”. The first three of them are represented by the composer in a four-hand edstatement, the latter is written for two pianos. In this article panoramic review of V. Ptushkin’s four piano ensemble cycles is aimed at the individual solution of the interpretative problems in each studied music work. Therefore, an analysis of the composer’s writing features, available piano and artistic tasks are provided to students with some knowledge and “hints” in choosing a single executive decision, which are relevant to the author’s idea.The music-genre basis in composer of dance genres both domestic and court-secular is revealed in this article.V. Ptushkin used waltz, gallop, menet, gavot, tarantel as such a dance-genre basis in his piano cycles.In addition, the atricality of the composer’s thinking as led to the usage of the purely theatrical genres and forms: the divertissement, the overture, the finale, etc.The principle of mask is revealed as the leading and decisive principle of V. Ptushkin’s composer’s creativity. The principle is manifested itsel to a degree taken for the review piano cycles.Depending on this, fundamental expressive music instruments are used by the author and should bean alyzed and grasped by the students during their study.

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