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This category includes musical instruments used in Russia, or by people from Russia outside Russia. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories ...
The instrument is featured in the episode "The Secret War" of the 2019 Netflix series Love, Death & Robots. The instrument is used alongside a piano and a bayan (a type of Russian accordion) in the piece "A Journey" from the soundtrack of the 2013 Japanese animated film The Wind Rises. Selo i Ludy, a Ukrainian folk band, utilises the balalaika.
The gusli is one of the oldest musical instruments that have played an important role in the Russian music culture. Vertkov states that the first mentions of the gusli date back to 591 AD to a treatise by the Greek historian Theophylact Simocatta which describes the instrument being used by Slavs from the area of the later Kievan Rus' kingdom.
In addition, medieval Russian illuminated manuscripts of the Psalter contain images of musicians with necked plucked-string instruments, and some of those miniatures are clearly captioned «depiction of domras». Judging by those images, late medieval Russian domras can be divided into two types: lute-shaped, which had five to six strings, a ...
Music of Russia denotes music produced from Russia and/or by Russians. Russia is a large and culturally diverse country, with many ethnic groups, each with their own locally developed music. Russian music also includes significant contributions from ethnic minorities, who populated the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern-day Russia.
From a simple unsophisticated three-stringed instrument, combined with an awakening 'Russianness' in the last phases of the Tsarist Empire, the movement led to the development and implementation of many other Russian folk instruments. The Russian folk instrument movement had its resonance in the cultures of other ethnic groups within Russia ...
Family of triangle-shaped lute-type instruments 321.32: Russia: gusli [121] Zither-like instrument with between eleven and thirty-six strings, tuned diatonically: 314.122: Russia: spoons [122] Painted wooden teaspoons, used as a percussion instrument: 111.141 Ryukyus of Japan: sanshin [123] Three stringed banjo-like instrument, covered with ...
Beside Russian folk music, the garmon is an important musical instrument for Caucasian (Ossetian, Georgian, Cherkess, etc.) and Mari people in the Volga and Ural regions, and in Slovenian music. It is also used in popular music.