Matviiv H. Sound image factors of modern bandura creativity: instrumental-executive author's approach.

The thesis is devoted to the study of modern instrumental bandura creativity from the point of view of its sound image semantic influences and instrumental-performing author's approach. The work affirms the actualization of the performing component of musical creativity, which is extremely important not only in modern musical trends in general, but as an important driving force, albeit polyphonic, but traditionally (and technically) rather limited in playing techniques of a multi-string plucked instrument, through which the composer's reflections of bandura players - performers, primarily instrumental specialization, which for centuries occupied far from secondary (for epic genres in general with their developed symbolism, especially for the Ukrainian Duma and the kobza in general), but also not an independent place, they allow, freed from the verbal factor, to identify the most daring (often unexpected) the latest sound characteristics of their instrument and techniques of instrumental playing, capable of creating new genre-stylistic (and therefore semantic) foundations of bandura instrumentalism. The author proves the historical consistency and logic of the autonomization of bandura instrumentalism, rooted in the formation of the Ukrainian kobzar phenomenon. The work analyzes the latest instrumental means and techniques of bandura playing, created and used in the musical language of instrumental compositions by the author of the thesis, the genre and style parameters of which go beyond the scope of academic instrumental art. First of all, these are instrumental works of motley postmodern, jazz (ethno-jazz, jazz-rock, pop) stylistics; synthesized technological forms of art (author's audio CDs, video clips, synthesized performance projects).