On Valerii Antoniuk’s "Testament" Choir based on Taras Shevchenko’s Poem

The purpose of the article consists in study modern Ukrainian composer V. Antoniuk’s reading T. Shevchenko's program poem “Testament” using means musical expressiveness inherent his individual manner with use arsenal artistic and technical tools choral writing. Research methodology comprises a cultural approach, structural-systemic, complex musicological analysis generalisation results. Scientific novelty. Valerii Antoniuk's writing has been explored for first time through prism thesaurus symbols concept neo-romanticism (symbolism) context tradition. Conclusions. genre this work determined as “choir fresco”. authors have found that is an important component worldview philosophical paradigm, so influence romanticism poetics can be traced work. archetypal images culture embedded are analysed, which simultaneously identified reality, but also remain certain generalising author's style. mood lyrical hero represented – narrator-protagonist entire spectrum feelings, perception depths life fullness, merging surrounding world, feeling part it. personal feelings moods beginning 21st century outlined characterised. understanding aesthetic idea, time-space, height power accentuation traditional singing native Shevchenko region by birth origin, conglomerated compositional technique, revealed deep level artist's mentality, vividly certifies ontological genesis creative identity.
 Key words: image, symbolism, thesaurus, choir fresco, shevchenkiana.