The developments of spiritual music traditions in Oleksandr Shchetynsky’s creative work

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the contemporary Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shchetynsky, and, inparticular, the significance of compositions of spiritual and Christian themes in his creative work has been revealed.Brief biographical information about O. Shchetynsky has been given and the versatility of the composer's activitieshas been determined. The role of spiritual plot and imagery at the beginning of his creative formation has beenemphasized. The genre-performance specificity of the two lines of O. Shchetynsky's spiritual music – the Orthodoxone and the "Western" one (Catholic) has been revealed and the emphasis is on instrumental compositions of Christian themes as a modern kind of instrumental spiritual music. The example of the piano piece “Prayer for theCup” presents a complex interaction of liturgical-symbolic thematic elements realized in the atonal sound field.