ORIGINAL WORKS OF UKRAINIAN COMPOSERS FOR CYMBALS WITH ORCHESTRA (ATTEMPT AT TYPOLOGY)

Abstract

In the musical art of Ukraine, cymbalis have taken a convincing place among academic instruments with a considerable volume of multi-genre performance literature: foreign and national, original and translated. Along with the achievements of Hungarian, Moldovan, Belarusian artists in this instrumental field, Ukrainian composers' creativity has a powerful layer of original cymbalis performance repertoire. Works for solo cymbalis with orchestra deserve special attention, since they place high demands on both the virtuosity and expressive potential of the soloist, and the skill of the composer in combining it with the appropriate type of orchestral ensemble and the choice of orchestration methodology. The list of original works by Ukrainian artists of the named group is quite extensive. These are the dulcimer works of Desiderius Zador, Izydor Wymer, Yuriy Shchurovsky, Valery Syrokhvatov, Valery Polyovy, Anatoly and Igor Haydenkov, Yuriy Shevchenko, Yakov Lapynsky, Serhiy Kushniruk and many others. The purpose of this research is to typify the original orchestral-dulcimer works of Ukrainian artists of different generations and regions of Ukraine and the genre, style principles and types of orchestral compositions. In the original work of Ukrainian composers, a fairly large corpus of works for dulcimer with orchestras of various compositions has been developed: chamber, symphonic, folk instrument orchestra. Their creation is largely due to the high performing potential of both Ukrainian dulcimer soloists (often – first performers and performing editors of compositions) and orchestral groups. The type of orchestra is determined by the cooperation of the composer or soloist with specific groups, the nature of the work commissioned. Stylistically, the compositions are traditionally oriented towards folklore (folkloric neo-romanticism, neo-folkloricism). Genre varieties include paraphrases, fantasies, variations, rhapsodies, single and double concertos and their syntheses (cyclic concert, onepart concert of the poem type, concert-rhapsody, concert-fantasy, concert paraphrase).