MENTALITY PHENOMENON IN THE EXPLICATIONS OF MODERN UKRAINIAN MUSICOLOGY

Abstract

One of the concepts that has been filled with musicological content in recent decades is the mentality, through the prism of which trends and phenomena of musical culture are analyzed. Thus, the current musicological problem is the systematization and generalization of knowledge and ideas in order to form a holistic view about the mental features of certain musical cultures and their academic art manifestations. The aim of the article – on the basis of mentality scientific explanations to create a sketch vision of this phenomenon in modern Ukrainian musicology. Research methodology is reflected in the following problems: 1) analysis of basic research on the problem of mentality in Ukrainian musicology; 2) highlighting the main ideas of leading domestic scientists on this phenomenon; 3) introduction of own opinion in processing of a task; 4) generalization and disclosure of prospects for further research on this topic. Scientific novelty. The development of Ukrainian musicological thought on the mentality phenomenon and highlights the main achievements of domestic scientists in this perspective is followed in the article. The idea about differentiating the collective unconscious archetypes as artistic creativity basis into two types is declared: invariant («symbols») and variant («symbols of symbols»). Conclusion. Among the most important achievements on the raised problem are the following ideas. I. Liashenko’s idea about the differentiation of thinking ways as mental manifestations, ideas by N. Goryukhina and N. Gerasimova- Persidskaya about national identity in music, by L. Kyianovska on cordocentrism and stylistic aclassicism in Ukrainian music, by O. Katrych about the Dionysian archetype as dominant in Ukrainian musical-performing stylistics, M. Severinova's differentiation of artistic thinking levels in accordance with the provisions of the K. H. Jung’s collective unconscious theory and others.