Saxophone in V. Runchak’s Chamber and Instrumental Creativity: TimbroExpressive and Technical-Performance Aspects

Abstract

The conceptual aspects of using the saxophone's timbre and expressive capabilities in V. Runchak's chamber-instrumental work are characterized from the point of view of a comprehensive analysis of ideological and figurative paradigms that reflect and represent the artist's spiritual and philosophical searches. It has been found that the composer's appeal to ancient layers of culture, historical styles of the past is not accidental in this sense. The characteristic features of the enrichment of the intertextual content of V. Runchak's chamberinstrumental works are explained by the skillful use of non-traditional and modified performance devices and techniques of playing the saxophone. The factors of the formation of an imaginary artistic and performing image in the process of stage interpretation are determined in each program musical work. They appear in author text inserts and comments. The specifics of V. Runchak's use of the saxophone's timbre and expressive capabilities in chamber-instrumental creativity are described, taking into account the technical and performance capabilities of the specified instrument. It has been proven that the artist uses non-traditional and modified performance devices and techniques of playing the saxophone exclusively as a compositional and textural calibrated "movement", and not as a " invention for the sake of invention". The specific means of implementing elements of other compositional systems in the author's language are substantiated, taking into account the historically and factually determined ontological significance, aimed at: creating in the listener's imagination "author-controlled" images, ideas and feelings; expansion of stylistic attributes and involvement of a wide range of new or updated technological techniques, polystylistic principles, classical and romantic genre invariants; creative search for conditionally coexisting two opposite genre-forming factors — conditional dialogue between genre classical, historically composed prototypes and author's form-creating innovations and genre paradoxes; application of modern compositional techniques — aleatorics, cluster modeling, layered polyphony, sonoristics, etc.