Shevchuk I. Ukrainian choral music in line with spiritual and aesthetic institutions of Ukrainian culture in the first half of the 20th century.

The thesis is dedicated to the study of the poetic and intonation uniqueness of Ukrainian choral music samples of the specified period in line with the spiritual and aesthetic searches of the Ukrainian Renaissance in the beginning of the 20th century. Archetypal advantages in thinking operations and in the artistic achievements of Ukraine in the form of atheism and sophistry determined a special trust in the preservation of Byzantine institutions. They were professed with T. Shevchenko and I. Franko to Boychukism of the 20th century and focused the attention of artists on folklore, including its archaic manifestations in the author's work. Moreover, they attempted to introduce that folklore spirit into the Obikhod of liturgical Orthodoxy, on the one hand (efforts of M. Lentovych and K. Stetsenko), and to endow Scriabin's principles with folklore ornaments (B. Lyatoshynskyi), genetically incompatible with folklorism on the other. The Ukrainian Renaissance of the first half of the 20th century significantly restored the national foundations what has certain analogies to the English, Russian, and Italian traditions of world creative circulation. Painful leaps of ideological and creative-aesthetic preferences formed a fundamentally new layer of folkloristic justifications, which placed the national community within the limits of the global thinking instrumentalization brought by the age of the Scientific and Technical Revolution.