Sun P. Genre style as a category of musical thinking (based on piano creativity material)

The thesis develops a systemic approach to genre style in classical-romantic era piano music, and defines the specific properties of piano-performing genre style as a category of musical thinking. The definition of theoretical projections of genre style category in musicological science allows to highlight the criteria of genre study of piano creativity in their connection with the concept of musical-performing style thinking. The introduction of the concept of genre canon and derivatives from it into the sphere of executive understanding-interpretation becomes the basis of identification of various communicative-functional types of performance composite logic. There are proposed to be defined as polyological, monological, dialogical, in accordance with techniques of thematic development and formation of figurative-drama values. A differentiated chronotopic approach to genre-style typology of piano creativity is proposed, chronotopic features of genre-style forms of sonata, miniature, poetry in piano music are defined as fundamental for formation of inherent performance logic of musical composition. Genre chronotopic ideas, figurative and stylistic encyclopedia of piano-performance interpretation are revealed, dynamic stereotypes of performance interpretation are found.