THE SEMANTIC OF THE CONDUCTOR'S GESTURE IN THE CREATIVITY OF THE REGENT AND CHOIR MASTER

Abstract

The research summarizes the substantive and performance principles of distinguishing conductor and regent gestures and their role in the formation of the leading spiritual and aesthetic guidelines of the choral art of Ukraine, including the Odesa Choir School. The purpose of the article is to identify the content-semantic factors of the creative and performing activities of the regent and choirmaster and their influence on the formation of spiritual-ethical and genre-style guidelines of choral schools of Ukraine, in particular, of Odesa in the person of K. Pigrov and his followers. Methodological basis. Interdisciplinary, genre-stylistic, historical-cultural approaches were essential for this work, allowing to investigate the factors that contribute to the discovery of the spiritual and meaningful specificity of the conductor's and regent's gesture and their role in the choral art of different eras. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the fact that it summarizes for the first time the semantics of the conducting gesture of the regent and choirmaster, their differentiation, as well as their influence on the formation of national choral schools of Ukraine, including Odesa. Conclusions. Summing up, we note that the conductor's gesture of the leader of a secular choir, the choirmaster, is actually focused on conveying to the listener primarily the intonation-rhythmic component of the author's work and its emotional-semantic component, which covers a wide range of phenomena of the inner life of a person, the surrounding world, etc. The Regency gesture, unlike the previous one, is characterized, as well as the singing routine, by expressive minimalism, as it is more focused on the reporting and understanding of the Word as the main bearer of spiritual Truth, which transforms the spiritual being of a person. An organic combination of the mentioned traditions of choral conducting, indicative of the choral art of Ukraine, including the Odesa Choir School and the activities of its founder – K. Pigrov. His method of working with the choir incorporated the best traditions of the Ukrainian spiritual choral culture, which genetically resembled the traditions of "angel voice" and their religious and cultic instructions.