THE COVERAGE OF THE SPANISH COMPOSERS’ PIANO CREATIVITY AT THE END OF XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES IN MUSICOLOGY

Abstract

The following tasks are set and solved in the article: to find and work out the scientific materials as for studying the sphere of piano art of Spain during the Renacimiento period and which are closely related to this topic; structure the main discovered and available scientific sources in chronological order; to investigate the development of scientific thought in two discourses: 1) in Russian and Ukrainian; 2) in foreign languages. Historiographic, bibliographic, analytical and comparative scientific methods are used to achieve this goal. The results of the study showed that in specialized libraries there exist some works of 60-70-ies of the XX century, which serve as the main informational sources for the Ukrainian reader. Today, the piano pieces of I. Albeniz, E. Granados, M. de Falla remain kind of terra incognita for Ukrainian researchers, as evidenced by the lack of new developments of this issue. Instead, this sphere of musical art of Spain became the object of study in the works of the 1990-2000s of Russian, English, American, Spanish, French and Italian musicologists. Access to foreign works is only partly available on the online Google Books resource and is related to the possession of certain language skills and, to a greater extent, the knowledge of English. The bibliographic research of this issue in Ukrainian musicologyh as also not been revealed, which indicates the relevance and originality ofthis article. The results of the study may be useful to students, performers, lecturers and scholars during the exploration of Spanish musical culture, in particular, piano music of the Renacimiento period.