Thesis presents current issues concerning the research of accordion-ensemble
performance as a phenomenon of Ukrainian music culture. The most important issues
concern questions of the priority of this type of art, that is, the constant increase of its
socio-cultural significance level, as well as the cultural aspects of its poetics, spirituality
phenomena, dialogics and mastery as innovative cultural factors. These aspects consider
being basic from the point of view of formation and development of both folk
instrumental culture in general and accordion-ensemble music making in particular.
Therefore, the paper defines specific features of the «priority» concept
regarding performing genres with appropriate specificity in the context of accordionensemble
art. The paper specifies the chronology of the development of accordionensemble
performance in accordance with its definitions and socio-cultural functions,
describing its professionalization and academic degree earning. The paper also
specifies genre and style features of repertoire support of this instrumental field from
the point of view of traditional and innovative cultural trends. The paper analyzes
phenomena of spirituality, dialogics and mastery as components of performing
poetics projected on to innovative cultural potential of accordion-ensemble art.
A systematic approach to studying the accordion-ensemble art as a phenomenon
of Ukrainian music culture enabled a well-ordered and efficient analysis of this
complex phenomenon at most important levels of its functioning: 1) as an object of
musicological research (scientific priority); 2) as an object of evaluation according to
the criteria of priority (the priority of performing genre in theoretical, historical and
practical aspects). These two basic vectors of analysis became the basis for
determining the features of dialectical correlation between theory and practice in the
specification of all levels of hierarchical system of the «priority» concept, applying
the principle of organization corresponding to the ‘private – specific – general’ triad.
When studied the accordion-ensemble performing genre, a need to correct the
definition of the «priority» concept with its levels’ characteristics has arisen due to
the change of the object of evaluation. Thus, the criteria for determining the priority,
along with the relevance, were the novelty and the creative perspective, which, in
combination, determine viable existence of a performing genre. In this case, levels of
the hierarchical system of «priority» are: the global level (a development of creative
activity forms, needed to optimize the existence of mankind), the state level (a sociocultural
support of the development of a specific performing genre), art institution (a
level of the necessity to create specific art performing groups), art performing group
(an availability of resources for further creative progress).
The result of the study is the formation of a full presentation of Ukrainian
accordion-ensemble art as a holistic socio-cultural phenomenon, with a powerful
semantic potential of innovative cultural significance and purpose in all ways of
interaction of its theoretical, historical and practical parameters.
Key words: accordion-ensemble art, dialogics, spirituality, performing genre,
mastery, priority, repertoire, Ukrainian music culture.
