Musical interpretation as a manifestation of creative self-expression

Abstract

The purpose of the article. The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the creative interpretation of musical works in vocal performance, namely, consideration of a number of professional and personal characteristics of singers, as well as three interrelated stages of the process of creative interpretation. The methodology of the research of the study is made up of dialectical and systemic methodologies used in the field of cultural studies. General scientific and logical methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction, historical and comparative research of the problem are used. The author has applied a hermeneutic approach to studying the essence of creative interpretation as a process of establishing objective meaning, identifying the personal content of objects to be interpreted. The scientific novelty of the work lies in deepening the understanding of the versatility of the phenomenon under study, revealing the significance of the creative component in a number of personal qualities of a modern vocalist-performer. Conclusions. The creative principle in the musical performance interpretation is revealed through the individual filling with the subjectively new personality-colored content of the objectively existing author's musical text. At the same time, the musician-vocalist acquires the subjective value of interpretive activity in the process of self-disclosure, self-enrichment, and personal growth. The transformative influence of interpretation on the performer is due to the fact that through creative communication with a piece of music, a composer, his era, and the entire artistic culture, the performer vocalist enriches the limits of his personality. Thus, the creative interpretation in this work is defined as a complex manifestation of the individual and personal characteristics of the performer in the process of artistic reading and realization of a musical work.