UKRAINIAN PROTESTANT MUSIC TRADITION: GENESIS, HISTORICAL MILESTONES, MODERN STAGE

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Ukrainian Protestant music is the least explored today. The main reason for the lack of interest of scientists in this layer of Ukrainian music is due to the historical development of Christianity in Ukraine, where Protestantism has never been a leading denomination. If Ukrainian spiritual Orthodox and Greek Catholic music was studied from the perspective of style and genre evolution, the most prominent composer from Baroque to the present are considered, then Roman Catholic and Protestant music that sounded and today sounds in the Ukrainian cultural space, practically does not fall into the field of view researchers, because traditionally these faiths are not considered Ukrainian. In historical terms, one can agree with the last postulate, but today representatives of the Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations do not belong to national minorities, as it was a few decades ago. Today music with texts in the Ukrainian language for these faiths is created primarily by representatives of the titular nation and it is one of the components of modern Ukrainian musical culture. If Roman Catholic music, performed in the Ukrainian language, has a relatively short history – about thirty years, then Protestant for more than a hundred years. During this time, a whole galaxy of composers appeared, which, based on the traditions of Protestant music and national cultural traditions, created a rich repertoire, which today is the basis for Protestants of various denominations. Articles by O. Klokun are devoted to contemporary Protestant music; an analysis of the repertoire of various Protestant churches is placed in the author's monographs, where some Protestant collections were described. Due to the huge amount of practically unexplored material, it became necessary to