Terentyev D. Melodic-rock in music of the 80s of the XX century

This study dedicated to Melodic Rock – one of the most significant trends in music during the 1980s – is in fact the first research in the Ukrainian music science focused on this topic that has no earlier precedents. This style was significant in pop and rock music in the 1980s. This study focuses on the exploration of characteristic features of this style of rock music based on the objective scientific background avoiding (as far as it is possible) the prejudiced tastes and attempts to determine the criteria of artistic perfection and quality. The thesis corresponds to the current trends in music science as an in-depth study of musical and cultural phenomena, which has not been explored in the framework of Ukrainian musicology. The aim of the study is to explore Melodic Rock from the standpoint of scientific musicology, to give a serious and scientifically motivated substantiation of Melodic Rock as a typical example of rock and pop music of the 1980s. For this purpose, different types of music analysis used in modern academic musicology have been used as the methodological basis (functional, system, compositional, melodic, harmonic, sound and timbre, and texture) that allow to cover the musical phenomena in the context of the period, style, aesthetic and social, as well as cultural features.