The Cultural Tradition as a Stylistic Factor in the Choral Music of Yu. Ishchenko

The author investigated the choral work by Yuriy Ishchenko in the context of the cultural processes of Ukrainian composers' creativity of the second half of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries. The research has proposed subject-content levels of studying the individual author's creative dialogue of the composer with the traditions of Ukrainian and European musical culture. It was found that the choral works of Yuriy Ishchenko are built according to traditional principles, but at the same time they carry new ideas and meanings. The dialogical nature of the composer's creative consciousness as a creative personality existing in the cultural space of modernity is described. An attempt was made to determine the stylistic specificity of Yuriy Ishchenko's choral work in the aspect to actualize its representativeness against the background of the functioning of the cultural tradition in the space of further artistic practice. The organic connection between the creative practice of this outstanding representative of the Ukrainian school of composers and the structural levels of tradition as a special form of culture is substantiated. It was established that the choral work of Yuryi Ishchenko demonstrates a new vision, understanding and individual creative reproduction of the cultural tradition as a fundamental basis of the composer's practice. It is noted that tradition acts as the main "regulator" of the dynamic ratio of "old" and "new" in musical culture. The principles of interaction of dynamic (individual-functional-creative) and static (objective-content) complexes of cultural tradition in the space of musical creativity are traced. It has been proven that the choral works of Yuryi Ishchenko are the genre-stylistic "core" of the composer's creative experience, in which the genetic links between the musical art of the 20th century and the traditions of European and Ukrainian culture were actualized. The neo-folkloric and neo-romantic stylistics of the choral works of the Ukrainian composer are personified, as well as their musical and stylistic orientation towards the aesthetics of the "new sacredness".