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Theoretical Aspects of Musical Style and Genre Correlation

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  • 1. Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine

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The purpose of the article is to determine the character of correlation between style and genre – the crucial categories of musical art, which are constantly interrelated. Theoretical aspects of this problem are defined in this paper on the basis of examination of scientific works of the 20th–21st centuries which deal with these multidimensional and complex categories. The research methodology was based on the theoretical method of systematization, which consists in the consideration of scientific theories of style and genre. This complex method presupposes a range of other methods: abstracting (in the differentiated examination of the notions of «style» and «genre» and extraction of their peculiarities); analysis (in making connections between the categories of style and genre); synthesis (in analysis of style and genre as the components of hierarchic system of music). Moreover, the historical method was also applied in the research (in the revelation of the character of style and genre correlation in the process of evolution of the musical thought). The scientific novelty of the work consists in articulating the problem of style and genre correlation, defining its significant theoretical aspects, developing theoretical discourse of style-genre nature of musical phenomena. Conclusions. It was demonstrated that style and genre correlation is determined by the logic of musical-historical process. The main theoretical aspects of the problem of correlation between these categories were defined: hierarchic subordination of genre to style, dialogical character of coexistence of style and genre, the phenomenon of genre style.

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