Postmodern Accents in the Works of Ukrainian Composers of the Late XX Century
Postmodern Accents in the Works of Ukrainian Composers of the Late XX Century

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of postmodernism in the works of Ukrainian composers of the late XX century. It shows out the specifics of musical postmodernism in Ukrainian composers’ creativity. In the process of the research there was highlighted a state of art history on this problem; the specifics of postmodernism emergence and its aesthetics formation in the national art were studied; the main creative methods in composers’ works were generalized; the typical features of new musical vocabulary were systematized. In the article the following methods were used: source studies, historical, analytical, methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, abstraction, theoretical generalization. The article is one of the first attempts in the world context which highlights the postmodern paradigms of Ukrainian music. This scientific paper determines the characteristic features of Ukrainian musical vocabulary. In it there was proved that musical art of the late XX century has undergone significant changes under the influence of deep processes in social, moral, spiritual spheres. Domestic music has entered a qualitatively new round, synthesizing all the experience of previous epochs, national and European musical traditions, combining them with a specifically Ukrainian mentality. All these affected the formation of national musical postmodernism, which was characterized primarily by polystylistics, stylistic allusions in both classical and folklore discourses, fragmentation and spontaneity in the creation of musical forms, conceptual authorial ideas.

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