Trends in performance on percussion instruments in musical practice of the XXI century (on the example of arrangements of Ukrainian songs)

Statement of the problem. The development of musical art in the 20th and early 21st centuries is a complex and multidimensional process that attracts the attention of many musicologists. One of its features was the emergence of an extensive system of various styles and genres, the existence and development of which is parallel to the paradigm of academic music. Pop music in all its various manifestations, musical styles associated with the functioning of numerous subcultures – all these phenomena are only in some aspects of their functioning related to academic musical art, but this sometimes leads to the appearance of synthetic styles, such as, for example, symphorock. Some of the musical styles that do not belong to the paradigm of academic music become centers of the emergence of various genre alternatives to the already formed and tested system of genres of academic music. This opinion also applies to arrangements of folk songs. The question of the interaction of Ukrainian folklore and styles of popular music in domestic musicology was investigated by O. Shevchenko (2023), D. Shramov’iat (2021), V. Horobets, O. Snopko, N. Regesha (2017), T. Pistunova and H. Postoi (2017), V. Tormakhova (2017). N. Ovsiannikova (2022), A. Furdychko (2017), Yu. Pokalchuk (2000). However, the functions of percussion in the genre of folk song processing in the works of Ukrainian pop and rock bands are actually not given attention in modern musicological thought. Objectives, methods and novelty of the research. The principles of form-making, timbre dramaturgy, etc. are determined by the instrumentation typical for each individual style, in which percussion is often a kind of identifier of the style. This role of percussion instruments encourages a deeper study of this phenomenon, that determines the scientific novelty of our work. Determining the specifics of the use of percussion in arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, which is carried out for the first time, is the purpose of this study. In order to achieve it, the methods of musicological, comparative, imagesemantic analyze were applied. Research results and conclusion. The analysis of a number of arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs made it possible to come to the conclusion that the percussion instruments in them perform various functions, the main of which are the creation of a suitable rhythmic background for the unfolding of the musical texture and participation in the process of transformation of musical images in combination with other instruments. Moreover, in some cases, drums and percussion come to the fore and perform the function of an element of texture, which, together with vocals, concentrates all other texture components around it. In other cases, the drums play the role of an integral part of the rhythm section, without focusing additional attention of the listener on themselves.