THE INFLUENCE OF AUTHOR’S STYLE ON THE INTERPRETATION OF CHORAL GENRES IN CHORAL MUSIC EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF MUSICAL PERCEPTION PSYCHOLOGY
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2026.1.07Keywords:
musical thinking, author’s style, performance strategy, musical education, choral performance, choral traditionAbstract
The article focuses on the current problem of the relationship between the author’s style and the peculiarities of the interpretation of choral genres in the musical system of Ukraine. The key goal is to determine the influence of cognitive and emotional markers of the author’s musical style on the interpretation of choral genres, taking into account pedagogical strategies. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach involving the methods of systemic, stylistic and comparative analysis of musical works. Expert psychological and musicological modelling was involved for the purpose of studying the degree of adequacy of the perception of musical works by performers through the assessment of syntactic complexity, emotional tension, textural density, and performance intentionality. A total of 12 choral works belonging to Ukrainian professional and foreign traditions were selected. The results demonstrated a statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) in the interpretation of national and foreign repertoire. Ukrainian musical tradition forms a high degree of adaptability and direct emotional response due to mental rooting in the national tradition, while foreign music requires additional cognitive efforts for adequate awareness of its expressiveness, in particular the structural and emotional component. In general, it was determined that the influence of the author’s style on the level of interaction of cognitive and emotional characteristics in performance is of high significance for psychological and musicological research for adequate performance and pedagogical strategies. Further research may focus on interdisciplinary studies of the correlation of author’s style, performance strategy and listener’s apperception, in particular using neuropsychological methods.
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