Two fragments of B. Javorskii’s research activity in the context of music thinking of the epoch

Два фрагменти дослідницькоїдіяльності Б. Яворського в контексті музичного мислення епохи.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to consider two aspects of B. Javorskii’s musicological activity that reflectgreat transforming processes in the 20th century European culture. Those processes – new understanding of being, andchanging of the cultural paradigm – had been foreseen by the (to interpret historicaldocuments and musical texts); the method of historical analysis (to reveal the connection between B. Javorskii's musicological, pedagogical,enlightening activities,and the 20th centurykey cultural processes).Scientific novelty.  On analysingthe two vectors of B. Javorskii’s research activity,the essential connection between them,contrary to theirillusive external difference, has been revealed and proved.Conclusions. The 20th century represents two fundamental tendencies in European culture.  They are: strengthening and culmination of atheistic nihilism and following return to sacral values with the necessity oftheir re-understanding. The lines in question reflect in the way of development of musical intonation. The first one, which dominated in the first half of the 20th century, is characteristic by shaking of major-minor mode system and by growing of esthetic values of the dissonance;the second one, dominating in the next half of the century, is peculiar by the renascence of the consonance.  Bothdevellopmentlines in West Europe musical language, determined by evolution of human’s conceptions of the Universe, and that of the Divine principle,have been reflected in the two kinds of B. Javorskii's musicological activity, analysed in the article. So, external contradictions in Javorskii'smusicological attitudes are in essential the elements of the integral outlook.Theywitness of high value of the scientist’s research heritage.