Tymchenko-Byhun I. Piano paraphrases of M.I. Glinka: style processes in the context of international interactions

This thesis takes into consideration international interactions on the example of the genre of piano paraphrase of M. Glinka that had fallen under influence of several musical cultures: Russian, Italian, German and others. Paraphrase’s genre – one of the means of intercultural dialogue – turns into an area of style experiments and adaptation of new intonationality to Russian musical style in Glinka’s works. Cognation of M. Glinka’s works to general-European Romantic Piano Art allows considering style intersections on three levels: of international ties, as well as genetic, contact and typological. The result of the research gives access to new for Russian Musical Art visual-notional spheres, which are taking part of dynamic components of national style and having their musical expression in piano creations of Glinka: Russian Elegiac Lyric, Russian Nocturne Lyric and Russian scherzosity. They are studied in detail in musical-analytic part on the examples of Glinka’s paraphrases of different age, each ofwhich is an original quintessence of corresponding stage of style pursuit of the composer.