National vocal tradition as a synthesis of composers’ and performance art (on the example of A. Ginastera’s creativity)

Abstract

Statement of the problem. The study of the processes of synthesis of composers’ and performance arts is one of the relevant areas of modern music science. An important aspect of their manifestation is the national tradition, which has its own characteristics in different historical and cultural conditions. This is especially true of national music representing countries that are far from the European continent. These include Argentine music, in particular, the vocal one. The analysis of publications on the chosen topic shows that the issue of national manifestations in the art of music remains acute. In addition to academic musicological research (Lyashenko; Romaniuk), there are scientific works on the border of science and journalism (Gottlieb; Kelly & Mantere & Scott; Knox), where the context is modern cultural and civilizational processes. The study of national traditions, including vocal ones, in A. Ginastera’s music (Brakhman & Kononets; Dotsenko; Kryazheva; Chase; Schwartz-Kates; Carballo; Wylie) is mostly based on the analysis of the composer’s creative work, while the performance component is insufficiently studied. All the above determines the scientific novelty of the presented research, which has the purpose to reveal the composers’ and performance principles of A. Ginastera’s vocal creative work in the context of the specifics of the Argentine national vocal tradition. The methodological basis of the research units several thematic areas:the researches devoted to Argentine music (Kryazheva; Riggs; Schwartz-Kates), to the life and creative work of A. Ginastera (Brahman & Kononets; Dotsenko; Kryazheva; Carballo; Chase; Schwartz-Kates; Wylie), and to the issues of national traditions in composer and performance creativity (Lyashenko; Romaniuk; Kelly & Mantere & Scott), in particular, in the perspective of performance analysis (Nikolaievska). Results and conclusions of the research. In vocal music, national specificity reveals at several levels – the author-composer’ one (intoning, means of expression, stylistics), the stylistic one (historical, national, and musical style), the figurative-content one (more broadly – the cultural-mental one), and the phonic-articulatory one. A. Ginastera’s vocal creative work is a special synthesis of composer and performance rethinking of traditional Argentine music at the intonation and image level, which became the core of the Argentine national vocal tradition as a manifestation of the national “picture of the world”.