Traditional and Innovative Principles in the Performance Practice of Bandurists' Chapel "Sun" Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevskyi National University of Arts (to the 25th Anniversary of Creative Activity)

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to determine the traditional and innovative principles in the performing practice of the bandurists' chapel "Sun" of I. P. Kotlyarevskyi Kharkiv National University of Arts. The research methodology is determined by the analysis of the established and new performance techniques in the collective's artistic activity and the use of the following scientific approaches: empirical, based on observations and processing of factual material; analytical to identify the level of development of the declared topic in scientific literature, and comparative, which is used to reveal stylistic differences in the work of other bandura bands. Scientific novelty. For the first time, an analysis of the traditional and innovative principles in the performing practice of the "Sun" bandurists' chapel of I. P. Kotlyarevskyi Kharkiv National University of Arts is presented on a theoretical level. Conclusions. Performance practice of bandurists' chapel "Sun" of I. P. Kotlyarevskyi Kharkiv National University of Arts is an important component in the development and popularisation of Kharkov bandura art and folk-instrumental culture of Ukraine as a whole. Traditional approaches in the group's work are clearly expressed in the repertoire of national-patriotic direction, are aimed at preserving the spiritual ideals and higher moral values of our people in the national musical culture. The use of modern innovative principles, which are embodied by means of artistic techniques and the latest means of expression, the creation of modern visual forms – video clips, is a characteristic feature of the dynamic development of the chapel and its influence on the enrichment and renewal of artistic forms in today's bandura art. The creative activity of "Sun" demonstrates the intensive development of functioning, in particular in the concert field of the city and all-Ukrainian levels, at the same time, it contributes to raising the importance of the bandura tradition in the musical life of Kharkiv and has a positive effect both on the increase of the professional stage level of the members of the collective, and on the enrichment and imitation of other bandura musicians groups of creative performing approaches of the chapel. Keywords: performance practice, bandurists' chapel, traditional and innovative principles, ensemble bandura forms.