The thesis first-ever considers the Ukrainian piano music of small forms of the first third of the XX century as a separate sphere of creativity. The leading style-forming factors of the national musical culture are determined not only in the aspect of the embodiment of national ideas but also in the context of all-European tendencies.
The article describes the features of artistic styles that emerged at the turn of the century: Impressionism, Expressionism, neoclassical and neo-folk trends and their impact on the formation of Ukrainian piano miniatures of the first third of the XX century. It was found that the postmodernist orientation of the Ukrainian neo-avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s was manifested in the interpretive and compressed passage of the latest techniques, which freed the Ukrainian musical sign system from denying the communicative properties of music inherent in the European avant-garde of the beginning of the century. Postmodernism contrasted the relentless and progressive transformation of musical matter caused by the sound "explosion" that resulted from the rejection of classical guidelines in early XX century art with a stabilizing, emphasized involvement in traditions, including national ones.
The main stylistic parameters of the formation of piano music of small forms are revealed, the formation of the genre of miniature from the origins to the post-romantic and avant-garde samples, filled with the experience of introverted intellectual activity, is traced. The miniature in the stylistic aspect was found to present in many ways, which proves its flexibility, compliance with cultural stylistic changes.
We have studied the process of formation of piano music of small forms in the works by Western (V. Barvinskyi, M. Kolessa, Z. Lysko, S. Liudkevych, N. Nyzhankivskyi, R. Simovych) and Eastern Ukrainian composers (M. Verykivskyi, P Kozytskyi, V. Kosenko, F. Nadenenko, L. Revutskyi, J. Stepovyi, F. Yakymenko,). A separate layer of Ukrainian modern music is the work of forgotten/silenced composers S. Bortkevych, V. Zaderatskyi, B. Kudryk, M. Roslavets, F. Yakymenko, B. Yanovskyi. Their works in the genre of piano miniature cover the entire stylistic spectrum of the Ukrainian art of the first third of the XX century. The affiliation of Ukrainian musical culture to the world art processes is proved by the analysis of piano music of small forms in the works by V. Barvinskyi, B. Liatoshynskyi, N. Nyzhankivskyi, F. Yakymenko.
