THE ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY MATRICES OF UKRAINIAN ACADEMIC MUSIC: METHODOLOGY OF THE ISSUE

Abstract

The article discusses the peculiarities of modern aspects of hermeneutic reception of the Ukrainian musical work – on a proper philosophical and cultural basis. The problem is that under the guise of cultural legacy, they were overburdened not only with “losses” of the cultural memory, but also became victims of imperfections of the so-called “style analysis” algorithms. Though resembling formal instructions to “style features” and “stylistic parallels”, this method has created the ground for the spread of popular opinions about the category of “national” as “national coloring” of universal style processes. Instead, it has been admitted now: the category of “style” is a formation of human dimensions, therefore, it is subject to the processes of micro- and macro-individuation when the following must be taken into consideration: the predominant vector of individual mental self-organization of the national culture; the socio-cultural context or the “spiritual situation” of a specific historical period; personal contribution of a composer to the formation history of the national school of composition, which is measured as the process of ethno-national identification of academic experience; personal priorities of a composer regarding selectivity of deliberate targeting the modality of ethnic (essentially “locked in itself” state) and national (in principle an open state for corresponding) forms of identities. Accordingly, the proposed algorithms for comprehending the mental peculiarity of Ukrainian musical works will ensure their hermeneutical reception as a most likely specification of modeling principles of a nationally stipulated style system and their generalization in terms of the method of shaping this system. For example, according to the concept of “mixed” style, where the presence of “a style attraction pole” makes the principle of allusion the leading one (kind of indirect quotation of perceived borrowings). The latter, in particular, will reduce the addictive habit of appealing to any “influences” (the algorithm of influentology) and provide a root meaning to national phenomena – according to their mental structure.