CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF THE BAROQUE ERA: SPECIFICS AND TYPOLOGY

INTRODUCTION One of the fundamental, widespread and valuable areas of musical art, is the chamber ensemble, whose genre formation is largely associated with the Baroque era. The phenomenon of baroque music has long attracted the close attention of many European, American and domestic scholars who study the history of European musical culture and disclose the characteristic features of its development at this crucial stage. In modern musicology, the level of Baroque art research is quite high. However, the problems associated with the phenomenological and semantic specifics of the chamber ensemble of this period, historical and theoretical aspects of the main ensemble genres formation and performer’s functional role models, still stay one of the least studied in music science. This is what determines the relevance and novelty of this study, devoted to the specifics and typology of the Baroque era chamber ensemble as well as to the identification of its initial stage basic principles. This issue, almost unstudied in Ukrainian musicology, was first presented in the author’s works summarizing the results of her lond-term work in the field of an ensemble’s theory and history: the monograph “Chamber ensemble: history, theory, aesthetics” 1 and the doctoral dissertation “Chamber ensemble: theoretical and cultural aspects” 2 . Source database of the study consists of researches in the field of music history and individual ensemble genres (first of all works of C. Ph. E. Bach, E. M. Braudo, M. Bukofzer, I. Bialyj, L. S. Ginzburg, T. Dapkiashvili, M. Hurd, E. H. Meyer, E. Sorokina, D. Stevens, W. J. von Wasielewski etc.). The scientific novelty of the research is that the chamber ensemble of the Baroque era is first presented as a systemic phenomenon, its phenomenological, semantic and communicative specifics are substantiated, its main types and genre models, ways and methods of their formation are revealed. The aim of the research is the conceptualization of the Baroque