Phenomena of Literary and Musical Genre Migration in Ukrainian Piano Art (the Second Half of the XIXth – the First Third of the XXth Century)

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to highlight the intermedial manifestations of the genre migration from literature to music based on the materials of piano compositions of the Ukrainian authors. Research methodology is based on the principles of comparative studies. In particular, intermedial approach to the study of inter-art language codes in musical compositions with the genre titles connected with the literature interaction has been used. Genological, system-analytical, generalised-typological, and comparative methods have been applied to draw parallels, to find similarities and differences between literary genre connotations and piano interpretations of a ballad, elegy, impromptu, fairy tale, legend, and poem. Scientific novelty of the research lies in an attempt of intermedial analysis of piano compositions with the existing in literature genre definitions by means of semantic-semiotic interferences. The concepts of the “genre migration” have been introduced to the comparative sphere of literary and musical genre halos, sometimes supplemented with programme guidelines, including reliance on specific folklore sources. Conclusions. Migration of the literary genres to the sphere of music is one of the dimensions of intermediality caused by paratexts of inter-artistic dialogues and polylogues in semiotics and semantic plane, as well as in composition-structural aspect. Despite the fact that these interferences are quite conditional, genre paradigm borrowings are the evidence of the direct mutual influence of literature and music, especially on the examples of the genres of ballad and elegy, which represent the genres of the double music-poetic genesis. Comparison with the genre primary basis-“paragon”, paratextual combination of musical genres with the literary ones (etude-legend, sonata-ballad) or with the programme title allow to claim the individualisation of the composer’s interpretation at different levels of the artistic organisation of a piano script. To sum it up, using literary genre models enriched figurative-semantic, stylistic, and spiritually-cognitive resources of Ukrainian piano music.

Keywords: Ukrainian piano art, literary genres (impromptu, fairy-tale, legend, poem), genres of the double music-poetic genesis (ballad, elegy), genre migration, eminent text.