Lisnyak I. The academicbandura art at the turn of the 20th and the 21stcenturies as a reflection of leading development trends of the modern music culture of Ukraine.

Dissertation studies are dedicated to the complex research work of the bandura art of composers and performers at the turn of the 20th and the 21stcenturies as a part of Ukrainian music culture, that reflected the typical trend of development today. The bandura art is considered as a part of the academic and the mass music culture. The author has analyzed the solo instrumental and vocal-instrumental compositions, the ensemble works for bandura and piano and other musical instruments, for bandura ensembles, for solo bandura and symphonic (folk) orchestra. The basic genre and stylistic development trends of modern bandura art, the unknown before genre and stylistic syntheseswere detected. The author consider creative activities of the famous bandura players, the art bands with bandura and bandura creative activities within mass musical culture.