SPIRITUAL MUSIC AS A CREATIVE SEARCH FOR THE MORAL-RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

The article is focusing on the compositional work of Ukrainian artists of the first quarter of the 21st century in an anthropological context, particularly from the perspective of spiritual music as a result of the moral and religious orientation of human consciousness. The purpose of the article is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the compositional work of Ukrainian artists of the Independence era from the perspective of the moral and religious orientation of human consciousness. The methodology. The study is based on an interdisciplinary anthropological and sociocultural approach to the consideration of the compositional work of Ukrainian artists, using a comparative method to establish the commonalities and differences in the compositional work of Ukrainian artists as a reflection of their worldview concepts. The scientific novelty of the research results lies in the revelation of a new model of the artist embodied in Ukrainian music of the first quarter of the 21st century, an attempt to analyze the psychology of Ukrainian artists who found themselves in the conditions of the transition from a totalitarian regime to the ideology of independence. Their work has become a reflection of the spiritual quest of the Ukrainian intellectuals in recent decades. Conclusions. Describing two trends in worldview in Ukrainian music culture in the 1990s and early 2000s, it can be noted that «new religiosity» and shocking experimentation, despite their oppositeness, are the result of composers’ willingness to move away from the so-called «topical» themes, which for them were a symbol of totalitarianism and the embodiment of the image of «homosoveticus». It is spiritual music that reflects the inner world and creative search of the artist, prompting a deeper immersion into the spiritual world of the individual from the perspective of the moral and religious orientation of human consciousness.