THE ETHNO CHARACTERISTICS AMBUSH IN THE VIOLIN CONCERT BY MECHYSLAV KARLOVICH

Abstract

The aesthetic preconditions of the ethno characteristics manifestations in Polish music in the beginning of the 20th century are considered in connection with the activity of the Young Poland Society, the Violin Concerto in A major (1902–1903) by M. Karlovich (Mieczysław Karłowicz) is analyzed taking into account the above processes, determine their basis and indicate the prospects for development in the article. It is emphasized that the range of ethno characteristics principles embodied in the work showed that they extend from subtle lyricism to folklore transformation and in stylistic projection from romanticism to its late version with the involvement of folklore signs. The theme of the work grows from several extremely bright intonation-constructive complexes that have folklore origins. This is the second-quarter core of the main part’s theme, which sounds like an apotheosis in the concert code, divergent quarter-fifth and gradual sequences of dance nature, as well as the cantilena of folk song origin in the side part in the first part and the episodic theme in the finale. Folk sources vividly nourish the theme of the extreme parts, while the second part (“Romance”) is sustained in the romantic intonation dictionary. It is determined that M. Karlovich’s Violin Concerto has an important, stage significance for the development of Polish music. The work is interpreted as a concert of romanticism symphonic type with folklore tendencies. This shows the parity of acculturation (European romantic) and inculturation (ethno characteristic) tendencies. Sophisticated lyricism, embodied by characteristic cantilena, and the transformation of folk intonation are manifestations of the national spirit of the artist, realized in music through the prism of a romantic worldview.