LANGUAGE AND SONG AS MAJOR ASSETS OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to actualize Ukraine’s music and language potential in the context of modern science and music therapy practices. This potential is able to optimize the process of personality development under the difficult conditions of today’s social life. Methodology of the research embraces historical and logical, cultural and integrated techniques, as well as method of musicological analysis. These methods allow to reveal and study the ethnopsychological component of the Ukrainian song and language in order to apply its potential for the solution of the present-day individual and socio-psychological problems. Novelty of the research lies in strengthening of the idea of how a Ukrainian song and language could effectively be employed in musical therapy to protect generations of Ukrainians from destructive vibrations of the modern world and make it easier for them to resolve crises and speed up the progressive personality development. As of today, there is a worldwide developing tendency: to implement psycho-technologies which can ensure effective functioning of a man in the modern society and humanization of his development vector. It is music (an art created by the vibrations most perceptible to a living organism, i.e. the sound) that can contribute to self-realization of a person, and at the higher level – of a nation. Conclusions. Vibrational-energy characteristics of the Ukrainian language and music are a powerful potential that can help individuals and a nation to harmonize themselves and their relations with the world. Ukraine can become a center of promotion of the music-based noosphere harmonization method.