"SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS" BY H. GORECKI AS A CULTURAL MEMORY PHENOMENON

The article reviews the stylistic features of an outstanding piece of musical heritage from the second half of the XXth century, which in the context of contemporary events and memorable dates gains a particular resonance. The affiliation of "The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" with modern cultural references gives it a special timelessness and characteristics of a phenomenon, that broadcasts the idea of the end of the world related to the horrors of war. The object of this article in an attempt to discover the peculiarities of symphonic genre interpretation, which is considered within the historical range of symphonies dedicated to this topic; to find out those features of texture, harmony, modal organization and compositional form of the work, which determine its stylistics. The author also tried to define the quotation techniques, which allow to perceive musical composition as a kind of revelation, presented as a set of texts. Application of the comparative analysis method made it possible to identify common style patterns and properties, which became an attribute of the unique style of Gorecki, who breathed new life into historically established genres, giving them specific features of sonorous texture, where timbre plays the main role. The meditativeness of composition, the form statistics, and the priority of modality, colored with subtle sonorous effects, became style factors as a result.