COVER AS A PRACTICAL PLATFORM TO THE FORMATION OF AN EXCLUSIVE REPERTOIRE AND ONE OF THE FORMS OF IMPROVING THE PERFORMING SKILLS OF A MODERN POP ARTIST

Abstract

Purpose. The work is the aimed at considering the relevance of cover works in the field of pop-jazz performance as an additional stimulus for the realization of the creative ideas of vocalists, instrumentalists, and arrangers. This is a sought-after current trend that arouses considerable interest among musicians and encourages them with its inexhaustible possibilities. Working on a cover version gives the performer the opportunity to implement the most daring solutions to artistic and aesthetic issues regarding the presentation of musical material. Methodology. The leading methods of our research are the intonation analysis method of B. Asaf’ev, B. Yavorsky and their followers, as well as the methods of performing musicology developed by the Kyiv scientist M. Davydov and representatives of his school. Scientific novelty. Considering the significant popularity of the cover version in modern music, we note the practical absence of musicological developments regarding this phenomenon. Creating a cover version of well-known works is interesting and quite complex in terms of creative technology. It requires new methods of working with the original musical material, a large arsenal of knowledge and professional skills, intellectual resources, erudition and aesthetics of taste. The indicated problems and tasks are considered for the first time in the national musicological opinion, which constitutes the scientific novelty of our work. Conclusions. Working with the cover is a breeding ground for the development of the artist’s personality, provokes the encouragement of creative experiments, aims at continuous professional growth and the invention of new ways to improve the skills of the performer. Experience needs to be generalized for qualitative analysis and understanding. Urgent issues of educational and methodical literature, which is lacking, must be addressed through the development of a complex, mainly foreign resources, supplementing it with publicly available textbooks in the field of music, music theory; study and analysis of new audio revenues.