Features of the musical embodiment of the poetic words of T. Shevchenko in vocal-choral works of D. Sichynsky

Abstract

The article analyzes the vocal and choral works of D. Sichynsky, written on the poetry texts of T. Shevchenko. It is noted that T. Shevchenko for Galician Ukrainians in the second half of the nineteenth century became a national symbol, and the annual commemoration of his memory contributed to the consolidation of the Ukrainian people as people of "one nationality". It is stated that the acquaintance of the Galician with the works of T. Shevchenko was also due to the popularization of vocal and choral works by M. Lysenko in Galicia, written on the poet's texts. It is alleged that one of the most prominent interpreters of T. Shevchenko's poetry in Galicia is the composer D. Sichynsky. He is one of the first in the Ukrainian culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to consider the genre of choral music at an angle of subjective perception, violating important philosophical and psychological problems in his choruses. Attention is drawn to the fact that D. Sichynsky was of little interest to T. Shevchenko's poetry with a pronounced expression of folklore. The composer chooses poems with neutral lexical material for his works. Therefore, his T. Shevchenko's perception is different from that of M. Lysenko and his followers. It is noted that in the musical interpretation of the poetry of T. Shevchenko, D. Sichynsky significantly ahead of his time because in poets poetry his interests are not national-historical, liberation themes, but texts that are characterized by in- depth psychological introspection. The purpose of the article is to reveal the level of individual identity of the composer D. Sichynsky in his appeal to the works of T. Shevchenko. The methodology of the study is to apply a comprehensive system approach that led to the use of such research methods: historical-genetic, identifying the origin of phenomena; hermeneutic, considering the musical text as a sign-symbolic system in its socio-cultural and historical context. The scientific novelty of the work is to apply the hermeneutic method in the study of musical and poetic texts in the vocal and choral works of D. Sichinsky on the verses of T. Shevchenko.