Music of Pre-Lysenko Period in the Studies of Mykhailo Stepanenko

Author

Kysliuk Andrii

a postgraduate student at Musicology and Ethnomusicology Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8728-7339

Music of Pre-Lysenko Period in the Studies of Mykhailo Stepanenko

Abstract

The musicological heritage of Mykhailo Borysovych Stepanenko, devoted to the study of Ukrainian piano music of the pre-Lysenko period is analyzed in the article. The works of M. Stepanenko in the field of piano music history belong to several important areas, namely: 1) the history of piano art (instruments, music forms), 2) the study of figures of Ukrainian composers and musicians of the pre-Lysenko period and their contribution to the development of Ukrainian instrumental art, 3) the special study of archival materials and the updating and returning musical heritage of that time to scientific circulation, in particular, thanks to the restoration of a number of piano works by Ukrainian composers. The analyzed research is based on a large array of source material and unique archival materials.

The submitted article is aimed at the comprehensive analysis of the works of M. Stepanenko, devoted to the study of Ukrainian piano music of the pre-Lysenko period and the understanding of the author’s contribution to Ukrainian musicology, in particular, to historical musicology, musical source studies and biographical studies. These facts determine the novelty of the conducted research.

The following methods are used in the work: analytical – in the analysis of M. Stepanenko’s works on Ukrainian music of the pre-Lysenko period; phenomenological – in the differentiated study of various aspects of M. Stepanenko’s investigation of the Ukrainian musical process of the pre-Lysenko period; historical – in the consideration of M. Stepanenko’s musicological heritage in the context of Ukrainian musicological science of the mid to late 20th century.

The conclusions of the conducted research are related to the understanding of the importance of the works of M. Stepanenko for Ukrainian musicology of the mid to late 20th – early 21st centuries, foremost historical musicology as a complex scientific discipline.

Keywords

Mykhailo Stepanenko, Ukrainian musical culture of the pre-Lysenko period, musicology, historical musicology.

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