Afonina E. European integral tendencies of the development in musical art of the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries

The dissertation is devoted to the research of Ukraine's development tendencies of Ukrainian musical art of the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries. European integral tendencies of the development that are considered to be the result of the interaction of Ukrainian musical art with European culture and contribution of its achievements to the national culture. The sacred Christian culture dimensions and parameters of rationality are defined in the paper. The analysis of the sacred creativity of modern Ukrainian composers is conducted and the implementation of the Christian world culture are determined in the sacred music. These all demonstrate the traditions of various confessions. Special attention is paid to the requirements of the rationality in the numeric symbolism and time-space concept in modern composers' practice. The analysis of musical works allowed to reveal the specific combination of actual Western European innovations with national traditions.