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Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.. In the 20th century numerous ethnographic and folkloric musical ensembles were established in Ukraine and gained popularity.
Folknery (Ukrainian: Фолькнери) is a Ukrainian free folk band, founded in 2009 by Volodymyr Muliar and Yaryna Kvitka. [1] The duo travels around Ukraine and other countries by bicycle, gathering traditional folk songs and recording them with additional musical elements. [2]
The conductor Oleksander Koshyts commissioned the Ukrainian composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych to write a song based on Ukrainian folk melodies for a Christmas concert. Using the four notes and the original folk lyrics of a well-wishing song he found in an anthology of Ukrainian folk melodies, Leontovich created a new work choral work. [ 1 ]
The most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes or keys which incorporate augmented 2nd intervals. This is an indication that the major-minor system developed in Western European music did not become as entrenched in Ukraine.
The zubivka (Ukrainian: Зубівка, Hungarian: Beregfogaras), also known as skosivka, skisna dudka, or frukanka, is considered one of the oldest folk wind instruments in Ukraine and is found primarily in the Carpathian region. It was first described by wandering Arabic scholars in the 11th century.
Chervona ruta — Rhododendron myrtifolium plant The song and its melody was written by a 19-year-old student of the Chernivtsi Medical Institute, Volodymyr Ivasyuk. [1] [2] Volodymyr was inspired by a collection of "kolomyikas" (author of the collection was Volodymyr Hnatyuk), traditional folk songs/dances of Pokuttia and Prykarpattia, found in his father's library [3]
Music by composers from Ukraine or with Ukrainian heritage is, and has long been, all around us.
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