INDIVIDUAL FEATURES OF MYROSLAV SKORYK’S CHORAL WORK, THROUGH THE PRISM OF GENRE SEMANTICS

Abstract

Myroslav Skoryk’s choral work folds a significant part of his composer’s workouts and marked by a noticeable individual peculiarity in terms of genre ambiguity. The composer realized his creative intentions in many varieties of choral music, added to them his own interpretation, which is conditioned by the symbols of imagery, stylistic reference points, the specifics of performances and genre features. In particular, the artist appealed to the genres of cantatas for choir, soloists and symphony orchestra (“Spring”, “Human”, “Hamalia”) on the texts of I. Franko, E. Mezhelaytis, T. Shevchenko, concert varieties of liturgical music (Spiritual concert requiem “Zaupokiyna”, “Liturgy of St. Yoan Zolotoustyy), psalms, choral cycle “Seasons”, paralympic genres, folk treats. In an effort to highlight theatrical-epic beginning of literary-poetic provenance, program source of its secular choral works or the programmatic title of his secular choral works, Myroslav Skoryk submits the form and the logic of the deployment of musical material to poetic text, chooses the style and the appropriate set of expressive means, harmonious with aesthetics, author’s world outlook, іndividualizes and personalizes the text of the author’s commentary and characters, provides contrasted content sections with rice of established academic or folk musical genres. The semantics of specific genres is realized on micro and macro levels – as a genre model of artistic integrity and read by the listener of generalization through the genre, which is aimed at deepening the content. Timbre dramaturgy is also present at the level of symbols of the timbre (fanfare, drums, harp figures) and characteristic timbrality of certain types (chorale, imitation, accented march chord, etc.). To a large extent, thanks to these techniques, the composer manages to find a balance between tradition and creative experiment, innovation, performance potential and composer’s professionalism.