“Music nationalism” in the Ukrainian musicological discourse

Abstract

The article is dedicated to studying the specificity of categories of "national" in professional composer's creativity. The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence of the phenomenon “musical nationalism”, to illuminate its understanding in the Ukrainian musicological discourse. To reveal the presented problems the following methods were used: source researcher (elaboration of scientific works on related issues); analytical and structural-logical (elucidation the basic and related concepts, interpretation the presented terminology); concretization method (clarification the categories of “national” in music); method of theoretical generalization (summarization). The war in Ukraine caused a significant increase the national self-awareness which evolves art and science in the direction of understanding their dissimilarity, provoked to find ethnic roots, ancient folklore, connections with traditions, a real Ukrainian musicological thought. The aggravation of interest in the national factor in musical art led to а need for a certain systematization the ideas of artists whose creative work was formed on a national basis. The proposed study forms such a scale of concepts that can reflect the dynamics of the degree of national factor conscious implementation in professional musical culture. A special place in this classification is given to the “musical nationalism”, which concentrates the content of the author's ideological orientation, forms the concept of his creativity, means a clear idea, its demonstration through an artistic product. As a result of the study of existing Ukrainian musicological works on related issues, several approaches of understanding the national paradigm in musical heritage have been revealed: in the area of musical philosophy, styleе, hermeneutics, artistic interpretation of folklore heritage and conceptuality. The article presents a model that forms an understanding of the problem of reflecting the national factor in the dynamics of growth, depending on the degree and depth of its conscious implementation.