Spiritual concert in the work of Ukrainian composers

The last decades in the post-Soviet space are characterized by spiritual searches, growing interest in spiritual heritage, in musical art – the blossoming of spiritual creativity, in music science – by increasing attention to genres of spiritual music. The relevance of the problem stated in the article is caused by the need to highlight the development of the genre of spiritual choir concert as an exceptionally important and illustrative for Ukrainian musical art. The purpose of the research is to reveal evolutional tendencies of the genre archetype throughout its history of presence in Ukrainian music art. The leading method of this investigation is a genre-style method, which provides detection of different levels of transformations of genre invariant, connected to historical and style conditions and peculiarities of individual styles of composers. The results of the study can be useful to researchers of choral art and choral conductors, can be used in the pedagogical process – in educational courses on music history, choral literature, music culturology.

Dydaktyka uniwersytecka Beaty Dąbrowskiej. Przywołania chwil minionych

<p>The article presents the teaching work of Beata Dąbrowska (1960-2016) at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Institute of Music. During over 30 years of her work at the University, Beata Dąbrowska – a conductor and teacher – educated several dozen graduates. As part of her teaching duties, she taught courses in choral conducting, reading the scores, vocal band, methodology of conducting vocal band, and in choir and choral literature. The classes in these subjects focused on choral music, which she liked the most. This text presents the methods and the style of her work during classes in choral conducting, reading the scores and choral literature. The description of her teaching, including, inter alia, manual and technical aspects of conducting, repertoire and interpretative issues, has been complemented with the remembrances by her students: graduates of the Institute of Music: Milena Lis and Izabela Urban and students – Kinga Rdzak and Jagoda Pondel. These memories confirm that Professor Dąbrowska – a person of great personal culture – conducted her classes with extreme calm and self-control. She was a demanding teacher but at the same time she created a warm and cordial atmosphere.</p>