Chamber and vocal work by Yuliy Meitus: genre-style and performance aspects

Abstract

Statement of the problem. Ukraine’s gaining of independence was an extremely important event for the country’s artistic life. Hundreds of artists who did not have the opportunity to freely express their own opinion gained the opportunity to work in any musical styles and genres. Th e independent status of the country made it possible to find and bring back to life a whole layer of various works of art, which has both significant artistic and historical value. This statement also applies to music. An important part of the mentioned cu ltural layer is the work of Yuliy Meitus. In particular, we are talking about the composer’s chamber vocal work, which is a significant part of his creative heritage distinguished by its volume and genre diversity. And although during the time of independe nt Ukraine, the artist’s work is gaining more and more relevance in performing and musicological circles, currently this process cannot be called complete. The importance of the revival of Meitus’s creative output also lies in the fact that the artist was a representative of the Kharkiv school of composers, which makes it possible to more fully illuminate its history and development milestones. Objectives, methods and novelty of the research. The purpose of the study is to determine the genre, style and performance features of Yu. Meytus’ solo vocal lyrics. The insufficient study of the composer’s chamber vocal work determines the scientific novelty of the r esearch. The article presents a musicological, comparative, image semantic analysis of selected sam ples of Yu. Meitus’ solo sings, namely, the composer’s works based on verses by poets of various styles and historical periods (“Green wind, grass smells...” to the text of V. Sosiura, “Little Ballad” to the poem by R. Burns, “Seven strings I touch” to the words of Lesia Ukrainka). Conclusion The conclusion refers to the formation of features of a new stage of the evolution of Ukrainian chamber vocal art in Yu. Meitus’ solo songs, which organically combines the genre stylistic signs of the classical romantic and modern musical art. In particular, we are talking about the harmonic component of musical works, in which the elements of the classical romantic major minor system are organically combined with the heritage of music of the 20 th centu ry, for example, with chains of fourth chords or various polytonal complexes. Creating thematic material, the composer, however, relies on the intonation dictionary of Romantic art, which gives his style even greater originality.