MUSICAL LANGUAGE IN SONGS BASED ON YURIY FEDKOVYCH’S POEMS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE CHERNIVTSI LITERARY-MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF YURIY FEDKOVYCH

The article outlines important approaches to the study of musical texts created by Ukrainian composers of the past and present for song pieces based on poems by Yuriy Fedkovych, in which the semantics of musical writing in choral and vocal samples, the peculiarities of the sound of musical language, the construction of melody, harmony, rhythm, which reflect the poetic text, its content and emotional coloring, are studied and analyzed. Only in the combination of musical talent and selected words can a song be born, winged and sublime, recognizable and native, which will live on for many years and will honor the memory of its creators. The influence of Hutsul folklore on Yuriy Fedkovych’s literary work was significant and powerful. He collected and studied folk poetry, legends, and fairy tales, and recorded folk songs, carols, and shchedrivky in his music books. In his works, he defended the freedom-loving aspirations of his people, depicted vivid images from the life of peasants, praised the high moral qualities of his heroes, and admired the boundless beauty of the Carpathian Mountains. These ideas became close and consonant to many Ukrainian composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yuriy Fedkovych’s poetic texts were used by his contemporaries and colleagues, Sydir Vorobkevych, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Yevseviy Mandychevskyi, Denys Sichynskyi, Stanislav Liudkevych, and Ostap Nyzhankivskyi to compose music. To reveal Yuriy Fedkovych’s musical talent, the exhibition materials on display at the Yuriy Fedkovych Literary and Memorial Museum in Chernivtsi have become valuable. In addition to sheet music, his personal letters, and musical recordings of songs written by him, the museum also contains the musical instruments he played: zither, lyre, drymba, and flute.