Kuzhelev D. The art tendencies of academical bayan perfomance developing in second half of the XX s.

During the second half of the XX century the bayan playing art was developing rather intensively due to the appreciable creative achievements of the leading Ukrainian performers and composers for the bayan. And that facilitated the formation of a special kind of chamber and instrumental music. The art of bayan playing draws the attention like any other new phenomenon, and nor the less it still remains an inadequately studied sphere of musicology.This work draws attention to a particularly important role of the bayan playing art in the 50-60-ies in the realization of the socially important muzical and educational function as a result of socializing the perfoming art concerning the folk instruments that were utilized as a national means of expresising the dominating ideals in the music art of that time. The increasing dynamics of the bayan playing art rather stimulated the musicians actively giving concerts as well as opening classes for playing the bayan alongside with the fruitful work of the leading teachers in this field. The principal artistic tendencies of the bayan playing art have been reveal in the course of research.They passed a definite evolution - from the reproductive and conventional style of playing in the 50-60-ies of the last century to much more impro-ved bayan playing techniques and to the perfection of certain stylistic tendencies. During the last decaded modern treatment of the bayan playing has been observed. It is mostly due to certain priorities of the novel creative work and to further differentiation of the mass and the elite cultures. Having been given the academic status the modern concert bayan approaches the general tendencies in the modern playing art.They are connected with further increasing the repertory demand and the quest for the new forms of masterly perfomance, with striving for individualization of an artistic self-expression, with comprehending the refined elite art and alongeside - with seaching for the resources of a musician's popularity through the adaptation oftrivial genres of the pop-art.The analysis of masterly perfomance of the bayan reveals the distinctive peculiarities of its creative system.The new tendencies in the bayan playing art have efficiently manyfested themselves in performing some very modern music, which facilitated its deepening expressiveness and enriched the intonacional and perfoming combination on the basis of the specific instrumental music language of the modern music pieces for bayan.The noted perfection of the bayan's perfoming capacity, and the successful concert activities of the leading bayan performers certain show progress of its creati ve potencial. A very appreciable addition of the new works for bayan by Ukrainian composers to the modern bayan repertory appears be a great contribution to the spiritual demands of the Ukrainian audiences. Due to its close links with the Ukrainian natural music (concerning both the character of imagery and colorer) the bayan, speaking figuratively, appears to be the proclaimer of the national music ideals.The distinctive signs of the interpretations modern music are the unusual treatvent bayan as a melodious instrument; aspiration of realization the modern music images; increase the rational factors of masterly perfomance for decipher the complicated intonftional maintance of innovatory works. The designed testify to important role of the „playing factor" for overcoming of the bayan art's aesthetical traditional nature and bayanist's wish for the high intellectuality of modern academical perfomance.The increasing creative potencial of the academical bayan perfomance not remove same general problems of the bayan art. Among them are the relative devalution of the music perfomance's concert form; contraction of audience snterest by importantest events of philharmonic life, charge of pop-art, which exludes the academic music, changeability hierarchy of aesthetical a appraisals.These problems cause the necessity of search the new artistic forms in the music perfomance and composer's works.