Trends in Genre Modification in Contemporary Ukrainian Piano Music: from Meta to Anti-Genre

The purpose of the study is to identify the determinants and specifics of trends in the modification of genre models in contemporary Ukrainian piano music and the associated transformations of the performer’s status and artistic communication. The research methodology of the article consists of cultural, art studies and comparative approaches that made it possible to understand the ways of genre transformation in the paradigmatic dimensions of modern culture, as well as the principles of musicological, in particular genre analysis, which provided awareness of the specifics of the transformation of genre paradigms, which are essential tasks of modern musicology. The scientific novelty of the article is to identify ideological determinants, conceptual and compositional and structural specifics of the transformation of genre models in piano works of modern Ukrainian composers, in particular, based on the analysis of the works of A. Yakovchuk, S. Zazhytko, O. Huhel, V. Runchak, which have not received exhaustive coverage in scientific discourse. As a result, it is proved that the genre, as a phenomenon of musical art, in contemporary Ukrainian piano music appears in subjectivised interpretations, the diversity of which resonates with the paradigmatic attitudes rhizome of Postmodern culture and determines the change in the functions of the performer and the revision of the principles of artistic communication. Conclusions. Contemporary piano music of Ukrainian composers demonstrates the rhizome transformation of the genre, the manifestations as follows: “implicit” synthesis of genres in the declaration of genre certainty by the author; declarative synthesis of genres in the stylistic modulation of genre models, orientation to meta-genre as a reflection of the modern polylogue of cultures, detailing of the declared model of the genre by the bill and genres’ additional signs; synthesis of musical, verbal and visual principles; experimental synthesis of signs of historical and cultural eras, types of art, genres, in particular, the trend of a theatrical adaptation of piano music; interpretation of genre as a meta-cultural phenomenon; “simulacrum” – a postmodern parody transformation into an “anti-genre”