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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37222/2524-0315-2019-11(27)-21

Natalia Kosanyak, Ph.D. in musicology, researcher in the department of scientific processing of visual and musical art works, Institute for the Study of Library Art Resources, Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv

Vasyl Bezkorovayny’s vocal works in Ukrainian music of the first half of the XX century

Abstract:

Vasyl Bezkorovayny (1880–1966) was a talented artist, an active figure in the musical life of Galicia and a representative of post-war Ukrainian emigrants in the United States of America. He wrote more than 350 works of various genres. Among them are compositions for symphony orchestra; vocal works — for chorus, ensembles or solo singing; chamber and instrumental music — for piano, violin, zither, cello; music for dramatic performances.

The article deals with the archival and musicological analysis of expressive and stylistic features of V. Bezkorovayny’s vocal works, based on the materials of Stefanyk Lviv National Library of Ukraine. Attention is paid to the place of the composer’s vocal masterpieces in the context of Ukrainian vocal music of the first half of the XX century. The most important achievements of the composer related to the genres of choral and chamber vocal music. In style, the composer’s works combine the influences of M. Lysenko, composers of the «Peremyshl school» and Western European romantic and post-romantic models. The original secular choral music of V. Bezkorovayny covers genres of songs, plays, and large-form choirs. In his solo songs the influences of romantic western European music and Ukrainian folk songs affected the formation and approval of the composer’s style.

Keywords: vocal music, chorus, solos, melodic-intonation means, harmony, rhythm.

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