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The Ukrainian kobza was a traditionally gut-strung, lute-like stringed musical instrument with a body hewn from a single block of wood. Instruments with a staved assembly also exist. [ 3 ] The kobza has a medium-length neck which may or may not have tied-on frets, which were usually made of gut.
Kobzar literally means 'kobza player', a Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family, and more broadly — a performer of the musical material associated with the kobzar tradition. [2] [3] Kobzari also played the bandura, an instrument which was likely developed from the kobza. [4]
Kobzarstvo (Ukrainian: Кобзарство) in the wider definition, is the art and related culture of singing to the accompaniment of the Ukrainian plucked string instruments bandura and kobza, as well as the Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy, which is called lira.
A bandura (Ukrainian: бандура [bɐnˈdurɐ] ⓘ) is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument.It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza.
Kobza is a vocal and instrumental ensemble of Ukraine [1] from the 1970s and 1980s. [2] VIA "Kobza" was the first of the bands of the former Soviet Union to go on a commercial tour on the American continent (1982). [2] The original band leader was Oleksandr Zuev. [3] One of the songwriters and current bandleader is Yevhen Kovalenko. [4]
Cossack Mamay playing kobza while riding a horse. Cossack Mamay [1] or Kozak Mamai [2] (Ukrainian: Козак Мамай, in less significant variants also named as Cossack banduryst) is a Ukrainian folkloric hero, one of the standard characters in traditional Ukrainian itinerant puppet theater, the Vertep.
Kobzars and bandurists were a unique class of musicians in Ukraine, who travelled between towns and sang dumas, a meditative poem-song. Kobzars were usually blind, and required the completion of a three-year apprenticeship in specialized Kobzar guilds, in order to be officially recognized as such. In 1932, on the order of Stalin, the Soviet ...
Kobzar (Ukrainian: Кобзар, "The bard") is a book of poems by Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, [1] first published by Shevchenko in 1840 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. Taras Shevchenko , born in Moryntsi , Kyiv Governorate , in what is now Ukraine , [ 2 ] was nicknamed The Kobzar (also the name of a Ukrainian social role ...