Yerhiieva K. Piano playing as a genre communicative and interpretive stylistic phenomenon.

Thesis is devoted to the disclosure of genre communicative and interpretive stylistic aspects of the piano playing phenomenon on the example of actual piano creativity of performers and composers of the late 20th and early 21st century. The game essence of modern academic art of piano performance is singled out. For the first time in the Ukrainian musicology, the playing phenomenon of piano art is distinguished and studied as an independent scientific problem in a broad sense in the social, cultural, interactive and dialogical conditions of the present on philosophical and musicological principles in order to reveal its essence and new understanding. An attempt is being made to typify the varieties of the modern piano playing. Actant psychological factors of the pianist’s artistic creativity (artistic psychotechnics, imagination, improvisation), which provide interactive communication of the pianist, are revealed. The definitions of the “musical message of the pianist”, “genre stylish taxonomy of the piano playing” are proposed, the concept of creative self-realization of a pianist is being developed, as a result of which the performing work becomes a new artistic integrity. The concept of modern piano playing is defined as a special genre communicative and interpretive stylistic phenomenon, which is revealed as a systemic phenomenon in the conditions of modern culture and represents a complex of specific psychomotor movements of a musician (“Playing Pianist”), adequate to his thinking and necessary for realization of the process of creative sound-making on the piano (grand piano) of the role artistic image of a musical work, synthesizing academic and non-academic in the genre stylistic taxonomy and the actual communicative situation.