ARTISTIC IMAGERY AND AUTHOR’S PECULIARITY IN COMPOSITION "INTRODUCTION AND TOCCATA” FOR CLARINET AND FORTEPIANO BY ALEXANDER NEZHIGAY

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to found definition of artistic imagery and ideological content for the composition "Introduction and toccata” for clarinet and fortepiano by A. Nezhigay. The target of the publication is also to reveal the most particular genre, performing and artistic-content features of the delineated composition. As a result, this information will have to contribute the widest popularization of the clarinet masterpiece among representatives of wind academic musical-performing art and in the sphere of contemporary pedagogical professional activity. The methodology of the represented investigation is formed on the basis of the method of holistic analysis by V. Zuckerman. Performing and comparative-historical methods are involved as well. Practice of specialized observation and generalization constitutes the empirical foundation for this research. The research novelty is determined by addressing to recent little-known composition "Introduction and toccata" for clarinet and fortepiano by the renowned Ukrainian composer, a teacher of Dnepropetrovsk Music Academy after Mikhail Glinka, honored art worker of Ukraine A. Nezhigay. First, the masterpiece was performed in 2014 during the concert of contemporary academic music by the composers of Dnipropetrovsk region organization of the national union of composers of Ukraine. The research studies the artistic-imagery content of the work and outlines the bright characterological peculiarity of the clarinet composition in the context of A. Nezhigay’s musical creation and the present-day culture-historical period. The conclusions of this research lies in claiming artistic and image-emotional picture for the masterpiece, which reflects in heartache of a person in his deep desperation, psychological pulling down (first piece "Introduction”), as well as personal insubordination, confrontation and defeat at the end of the music piece (second piece "Toccata”). The peculiarity of the composition determinates at the same time particular attribute of the creation by composer-innovator A. Nezhigay, namely his creative untimeliness. A composer-modernist works in the epoch of postmodern, generating bright musical masterpieces in the most characteristic for him culture-historical "captivity”, so-called creative inopportunity.