VECTORS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICOLOGY AT THE LVIV IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AT THE TURN OF XX–XXI CENTURIES
Authors:   Vasyl Stefanyk Prеcarpathian National University, Department of Music Education and Conducting Methods, KARAS Hanna 
Published: February 2025

The important university discipline is musicology, which is fruitfully developing at the faculty of culture and arts of the Lviv Ivan Franko National University, whose 20th anniversary will be celebrated in 2024. The development of this direction is due to the inspired work of scientists-musicologists.
The purpose of the research is to outline the vectors of the development of musicology at the Lviv Ivan Franko National University at the turn of XX–XXI centuries.
The research methodology consists of a combination of the cultural-historical and biographical methods (covering the life creativity of the department’s teachers through the prism of their contribution to the development of musicology), the method of analyzing the scientific literature on the problem (to identify the degree of its development and prospects for further explorations), and the scientific work of the department’s teachers to outline thematic vectors of their interests.
The scientific novelty of the article is due to the fact that for the first time the activity of the Department of Musicology is understood as a systemic phenomenon.
Conclusions. The activity of the Department of Musicology of the Lviv Ivan Franko National University for 2011–2024 years is investigated in the development of modern musicology of the diversity of its manifestations: educational, scientific, international. The role of professors O. Kozarenko and U. Medvedik was noted in restoration and development of the Department of Musicology.
The educational process of the department ensures the training of specialists in the specified specialty from bachelors to doctors of philosophy. Various thematic scientific work of teachers meets international standards. These are such areas of research as philosophy of art, medieval studies, the history of church music, spiritual songs of the XVII-th–XIX-th centuries, theoretical problems of the history of music, Ukrainian music studies from the Baroque era to the modern times, the phenomenon of the national variety of postmodernism, musical source studies, archeography and textology; issues of musical Slavic studies and local studies, intercultural connections and mutual influences of the central Eastern European paraliturgical traditions, musical pedagogy, neuroart. The international vector is manifested in the department’s cooperation with scientists from the countries of Europe, in holding joint International scientific conferences, publications of scientific works, the research results make it possible to rethink the problems of music history, Ukrainian musical studies from the Baroque era to the modern times, the phenomenon of the national variety of postmodernism, musical source studies, archeography and textology; issues of musical Slavic studies and regional studies, intercultural connections and mutual European central influences of the Eastern and paraliturgical tradition, musical pedagogy, neuroart. The international vector is manifested in the cooperation of the department with scientists of European countries, joint international scientific conferences, publication of scientific works. The results of the research make it possible to rethink the assets of the Department of Musicology at the context of the development of modern science and education.