“MUSIC IN POETRU, POETRU IN THE MUSIC OF LESIA UKRAINKA”

The article is devoted to the musical element in the poetry of Lesia Ukrainka. The
author analyses Lesia Ukrainka`s poems with musical motives (“Melodies” (Melodii),
“Seven strings” (Sim strun), “Rhythms” (Rytmy)) and numerous texts set to music by
different composers (M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, Y. Stepovyi, M. Verykivskyi,
H. Veriovka, etc.), as well as the drama “Forest Song” (Lisova Pisnia), which became
the basis for an opera and ballet (V. Kireiko, M. Skorulskyi). The author focuses on
the choreographic embodiment of Mavka (the main character of the drama) by several
generations of ballerinas, compares their perception with ones of literary
researchers, and discusses the literary and musical art specifics. Theoretical analysis
of the highlighted problems is considered in the context of Ukrainian and foreign
literary criticism.
Keywords: poetry, music, interpretation, song and ballet creativity, text and
subtext, mythopoetics, neo-romanticism, artistic merit, literary/folk realism, early
modernism.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2520-6346.2(61).79-89

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