Children’s Music by A. Haidenko: Bayan Cycles of Didactic and Instructional Orientation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reveal the indicative features for the field of children’s music on the one hand; and, on the other hand, for the composer’s creativity in general, with the didactic-guidance orientation of A. Haidenko.Research methodology is based on the historical, structural and functional, genre-style and intonational and dramaturgical methods.Results. Three cycles by A. Haidenko — «Prelude-Pictures», «Twelve Pieces for Children» and «Three Concert Etudes» — are considered in the context of the ancient tradition of writing music for children, in particular, in the context of Ukrainian children’s music for the accordion solo. The compliance of the mentioned works by A. Haidenko with the requirements for the field of children’s music is substantiated — the unity of artistic and didactic tasks. The range of images recorded in the program titles of the plays is described, and the ways of their reproduction in music are revealed. The author explores the widespread use of receptions aimed at children’s perception and contributing to the concretization of sound: synthesis through genre, stylization, the embodiment of speech intonations, onomatopoeia, motion reproduction. It is emphasized that the independence of individual plays is combined with the dramatic integrity of the cycles. Examples are given of the application of various types of bayan technique, aimed at mastering the expressive capabilities of the tool by the bayanists-beginners. It is concluded that the gradual complication of technical tasks from «Twelve Pieces for Children» to «Three Concert Etudes» makes it possible to consider three didactic and instructional cycles of A. Haidenko as a specific three-part «The School of Playing the Bayan», where the clarity of technical tasks is combined with the orientation of the shaped order of music to children’s perception.Novelty. «Preludes-pictures», «Twelve plays for children» and «Three concert Etudes» by A. Haidenko are systematized and summarized in terms of their compliance with their requirements of children’s music and as a representative of the composer’s work in general.