FEATURES OF THE REFLECTION OF NATIONAL TRAUMA IN MUSIC (GREEK AND UKRAINIAN PARADIGM)

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate reflection of the national traumatic experience in the musical works of Greek and Ukrainian composers. The definition of the concept of “national trauma” is explained as “loss of integrity and non-perception of the new reality at the national level”. Analogies of the reflection of the violation of integrity in the visual and musical arts of the Baroque era are drawn. For comparison, the features of the reproduction in musical works of the period of national trauma, which the Greek people went through in the 20th century, are explained. The works of Mikis Theodorakis, in which the national trauma is most vividly reflected, are analyzed, the reasons for their nationwide popularity are explained. The use of the symbolism of light as the Byzantine equivalent of truth in the song cycle of M. Theodorakis based on the poem by Yiannis Ritsos “Eighteen Hymns about the Bitter Fatherland” is investigated. In the work “Song about the Dead Brother” the use of the genre of funeral singing “paraloges”, which has mythological roots, is revealed. On the example of Ukrainian songs of resistance, music of Mykola Lysenko, Myroslav Skoryk and ballads of Svyatoslav Vakarchuk the regularities of using means of musical expressiveness in reflecting the theme of national resistance are shown. The following methods of research were used: historical, phenomenological, linguistic, psychological, comparative methods and the method of musical analysis. The conclusion is made about the necessity of creating a holistic virtual model of the ethnos by means of art for the regeneration of national trauma. The ways of psychological replacement of lost integrity by appealing to historical experience and religious consciousness of the nation are shown. The possibility is indicated on the basis of transferring the personal “trauma of loss” to the social plane by the method of generalization, ethical reassessment of loss and giving it a sacred meaning.