«SONGS OF THE STARS» BY BOHDANA FROLYAK THROUGH «SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS» BY SERHIY PARAJANOV: FEATURES OF COMPOSITIONAL AND DRAMATURGICAL EMBODIMENT

Abstract

For the first time in Ukrainian musicology, the work for symphony orchestra «Songs of the Stars» (2010) by Bohdana Frolyak, which was inspired by the legendary film «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors» (1964) directed by Serhiy Parajanov, is being researched. The history of the creation of «Songs of the Stars» was studied. The characteristic features of poetic cinema in general and the film «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors» in particular, which resonate with the compositional solution of «Songs of the Stars», are highlighted. The functioning of the image of the star in the story by M. Kotsiubynsky and the film by S. Paradzhanov is analyzed and, thus, the connection between the programmatic title of the work by B. Frolyak and the sources that inspired the idea is revealed. The form of B. Frolyak's work is defined as a sonata form with an extended episode in development, a transformed reprise and a coda. The compositional and dramaturgical features of «Songs of the Stars» were consistently analyzed, the main imaginative spheres, thematics, the logic of development were characterized. Timbre means and the use of sonorous techniques are emphasized. It was found that at the intonation level, B. Frolyak's work is original and independent. The connection with the music of the film is emphasized by only one example – the citation of the melody of the folk song «Verbovaya doschechka» in the development episode «Songs of the Stars». The conclusions emphasize the originality of B. Frolyak's work, its concept, composition, and imaginative dramaturgy. Three aspects are highlighted, according to which it is proposed to consider the semantic connections between the symphonic work «Songs of the Stars» and the film «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors»: the program title, the connection between the general compositional logic of poetic cinema and the logic of the form of a musical work, the degree of influence of the film's plot on the composition and dramaturgy of the symphonic work.