MUSICAL READING OF THE MAKSYM RYLSKYI’S POETRY IN THE CHORAL CREATIVITY OF MYKOLA LASTOVETSKYI

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the specifics of the music interpretation of Maksym Rylskyi’s poetry in the choral work of the modern Ukrainian composer Mykola Lastovetskyi. The scientific novelty consists in the studying for the first time in the research discourse the peculiarities of the musical reading of M. Rylskyi’s poems in the creativity of M. Lastovetskyi. Conclusions. The M. Lastovetskyi’s choral creativity is distinguished by its genre and stylistic variety, organic correlation of musical text and verbal component, attentive attitude to poetic semantic dominants in the area of musical intonation and means of musical expressiveness. It was found that the composer set the poetry of a number of Ukrainian poets (T. Shevchenko, I. Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, V. Romanyuk, P. Perebyinos etc.) to music, combining them into collections like «poetic monoreader». It is stated that the semantic dominants of M. Rylskyi’s poetic text received a convincing artistic transformation by means of choral sounding in the M. Lastovetskyi’s creativity in the collection "Poetics", which contains twenty-two works arranged in five sections-cycles: "Poetics", "Three poetic and musical dedications", "How not to love... ", "Melancholia" and "Cossack Mamai. Choir Triptych Concert". Characterized by peculiarities of musical reading, they differ in subject matter, poetic and figurative sphere of feelings, genre and stylistic features, means of musical expressiveness, etc. It is noted that the composer embodied the semantics of M. Rylskyi’s poetic words in the sound of mixed choir a caрpella. It was revealed that the artist was most inspired by poetry of lyrical, elegical, love, historical themes, as well as philosophical and intimate reflections of the poet and poems depicting images of nature. The composer turned to the poems of M. Rylskyi, written in different periods of his life. In general, M. Lastovetskyi’s interpretation of the poetic word is marked by a subtle insight into the poet’s figurative and artistic thinking, by the synergy of musical and verbal artistic realization.