Vitaliy Kyreyko’s Ukrainian Passacaglia: Actualization of the Ancient Genre as a Feature of Composer’s Piano Style

Abstract

The paper examines the genre and expressive-stylistic concept of Vitaliy Kyreyko’s piano works on the example of his Ukrainian passacaglia, as well as its role and place in the history of Ukrainian culture of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Vitaly Kyreyko’s piano music is an extensive sphere of the artist’sfruitful creative work. It is an invaluable asset for Ukrainian culture that opens a separate page in the history of the national school of composition. The aim of the study is to analyze the genre-style and formative features of Ukrainian Passacaglia for piano as a significant work of Vitaly Kyreyko’s mature period, to characterize the actualization of the ancient genre of passacaglia as one of the trademark features of his piano style. The methodology of work is based on the complex application of scientific methods: source study deals with historical archival sources on selected topics; cross-cultural method clarifies the context of the cultural environment of the artist; informative and communicative methods allow to obtain documentary materials, information, and facts through communication with the composer; analytical method was useful for the analysis of the musical material of Ukrainian Passacaglia; system-structural method was applied to summarize the acquired information.