GENRE OF THE CHORAL ACAPELLA PSALM IN THE CREATIVITY OF HANNA HAVRYLETS

The article characterizes and focuses on the uniqueness of acapella psalm genre in the creative works of contemporary composer Hanna Havrylets, who synthesizes the subtleties of traditions of liturgical singing genres with the techniques of modern poetics of choral art in a special way. The predominance of the Word in the music, and even more an opportunity to fill it with a sacred meaning, embodying the outlines of the latest undertones, transfers the images onto the plane of high art. The spiritual and sacred origin is for her deeply natural, indivisible and mentally inherited in her sense of past, present and future. Her works are full of unique national symbols, which determines the trespassing of semantics of the established genres beyond the traditional models of paraliturgical and ecclesiastical sphere by interpreting different genre concepts, where not only melodic linearity is the foundation of musical material, but also the nature of texture and acoustic space. Within the framework of genre modelling, on the basis of ancient traditions, as well as the examples of interpretation of psalm singing principle, the peculiarities of their compositional author’s construction were formed. The original choral works of spiritual orientation, presented in the works of Hanna Havrylets, are an organic part of Ukrainian liturgical creativity, wonderful samples of national historical-cultural tradition, which flourished out and became practically the main factor of modern composers’ entry into the latest artistic process. The outlines of canonical forms and texts in the composer`s works fascinates with special mysticism and prayerfulness, where certain inner concentration and confession are prevailing, which becomes the main feature of her compositional style as of today. Exactly in this way the sacred choral music of H. Havrylets, being so unique, flows into the general modern tendencies of today's compositional creativity.