Genre and style unique features of Bogdan Frolyak’s second piano concerto Cover Image

Жанрово-стильові особливості другого фортепіанного концерту Богдани Фроляк
Genre and style unique features of Bogdan Frolyak’s second piano concerto

Author(s): Pan Khun Andji
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: modern Ukrainian music; concerto for piano and orchestra; single-frequency concert form; genre and style unique features; musical language; solo part; solo cadenza;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of Research. The research is related to the genre and style special aspects of one of the newly created samples of the concert for piano with orchestra genre in contemporary Ukrainian music – Bogdana Frolyak's Second Piano Concert (2012), a famous Lviv composer, this year's winner of The Award of Taras Shevchenko (2017). Methodology. The research methodology is based on using the comparative-historical method and theoretical analysis of the musical work. The above theoretical approach allows determining the place of the analyzed work in the system of other genre models of the piano concert in contemporary Ukrainian music, which is consistent with the main development tendencies of this genre in the world musical culture. Scientific Novelty. The scientific novelty of the research is the first demonstration of interpretation specificity for the single-part form of the analyzed concert, identifying several possible options of its division into sections, determining the principles of interaction between the soloist and orchestra, analysis of musical poetics, which makes up the content concept of the work. Conclusions. The research of the genre and style features and musical language of Bogdana Frolyak's Second Piano Concert shows that this work reincorporates essentially the genre invariant of the classical instrumental concert solo reduced to the scales of a single part. In terms of content concept depth it belongs to the genre variety of the concert-symphony. Its musical language, which combines the neo-romantic and neo-baroque features of the author’s individual style, inherits seamlessly the experience accumulated by previous generations of composers, and synthesizes smoothly the signs indicating various genre and style sources.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 238-243
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian
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