Approaches to Meditation in the 20th Century Musical Creativity: Theoretical Aspects and Scientific Interpretations

Liubov Serhaniuk; Hanna Karpenko; Yu Ke

doi:10.18290/rh257312.19s

Published : 2025-12-30

Vol. 73 No. 12 Zeszyt specjalny (2025)

Approaches to Meditation in the 20th Century Musical Creativity: Theoretical Aspects and Scientific Interpretations

Liubov Serhaniuk

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-2294

Hanna Karpenko

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3068-6533

Yu Ke

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3068-6533

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh257312.19s

Abstract

The present study examines the notion of “meditation” in musical creativity – both as a component of a specific genre tendency and as a set of stylistic means employed by composers to achieve this genre status. More broadly, the analysis of meditation in contemporary musical creativity is a highly relevant and promising task, especially in view of the intensification of intercultural interactions over the past half-century and the need to understand how meditation functions as one of the principles of modern musical creativity.

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concept, meditation, model, reflection, worldview

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