INTERPRETATION OF GENRE OF THE MARIAN ANTIPHONS IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN MUSIC (on the example of the cycle «Mariologia» by A. Retynsky)

Abstract

The purpose of this scientific article is to learning Marian antiphons as a fundamentally important musical attribute of church liturgical spiritual practice and as an essentially specific genre of composition into the contemporary Ukrainian music on the example of the artistic work of a well-known Ukrainian composer Oleksiy Retynsky. There are methods of this signified research. The research of Marian antiphons is carried out using the methodology of historical musicology, holistic musicological analysis and musical hermeneutics. The scientific novelty of this represented investigative work is to introduce to the scientific circulation of Ukrainian musicology the cycle „Mariologia” for mixed choir and percussion instruments, by Oleksiy Retinsky (2017) and to reveal the features of interpretation of the medieval genre by composer of modern times. Conclusions. The artistically musical cycle „Mariologia” of distinguished Ukrainian musician, composer Oleksiy Retynsky for mixed choir and percussion instruments is analyzed, the place and significance of the work in modern performing practice are determined. It is emphasized that contemporary Ukrainian composers and choral groups are starting to get actively interested in medieval liturgical genres, trying to interpret them in accordance with the worldview and attitude of a person of the end XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries. The specificity of the interpretation of the ancient liturgical genre of Marian antiphons in the works of modern Ukrainian composers is considered. The role and specialized place of spiritual foundations as well as the internal direction of composers in writing musical works on canonical texts is discovered. The features of the use of psalmody and Gregorian chant in the context of modern worldview are revealed.