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 RUSHNICHOK |
| The soloist of Origen Tanya Lubimenko and Miroslav Grishko, laureates of the first prize of the All- Ukrainian folk music and arts contest will demonstrate youall the beauty of the Ukrainian folk music and prove that Ukrainian songs are realy Slavic treasure don't believe? then hear |
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 1000 YEARS: MONKS CHOIR OF KYIV PECHERSK MONASTERY Rich chant tradition of the cradle of Orthodox monasticism in Rus is augmented with chants by latter-day composers and Christmas carols. Famous monks choir for many centuries is the legend and as magnet attracts thousands pilgrims from all over the world read more and hear |
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In pagan times the Ukrainian Christmas music- Kolyadkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) (tracks # 1,4,5,7-11,14,16,18,20,21) and Shchedrivkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) (tracks # 2,15,17,19) were a component of sacramentals related with New Year Day and vernal equinox. In later time Kolyadkas and Shchedrivkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) became a symbol of Christmas time and other biblical dates and events. Obviously, such reassess of function has served as the reason of a semantic and stylistic variety of Ukrainian Christmas carols, represented on the disk. The content of spiritual verses is always Christian. Their musical stylistics can inherit ancient epic singing-narrative tradition of east Slavs (¹6). The closest relation with Orthodox Church Christian religious doctrine and ideology, and also with Church service music is observed in folk canticles (¹3,12,13) and polychronions (¹20,22).
| The biblical characters (Jesus Christ, The Theotokos, apostles Peter and Paul, saint George and saint Basil, Herod the king and others), and also place of events in folklore musical compositions as though they are passed through a prism of representation of the Ukrainian peasant consequently get typical features of Ukrainian everyday life. The stylistics of the folk music, represented on the CD, shows different stages of traditional Ukrainian folk music history. Besides it is caused by the certain regional tradition. The heterophone Ukrainian Christmas carols from Polissia (North Ukraine) are the most archaic. The manner of their performance is especially ceremonial, and reminds a wail (¹2,8,11). In other regions of Ukraine such manner of singing is of rare occurrence (¹15). The characteristics of the later stylistic features are: adding of an independent top voice to a song melody (¹9,14,17,18); expansion and enriching the canvas with additional voices (¹1,12). So it forms chord-harmonic canticle style of 17-18 centuries (¹3,4,5,7,10,13,16,20,22) and change vocal manner to church singing (¹5,16). Dniper Livoberezhzhia singing (¹3,7,13) is noticeable for its extended, polyphonically wide style. It is very close to local lyrical singing tradition. In Polissia the singing of winter ceremonial songs could be traditionally accompanied by a violin (¹8,21). This disk represents only small part of a unique musical folklore heritage of Ukrainian people. Tunes were recorded on an audio tape in 1978-1999. All of them were performed by singers from villages of three regions of Ukraine - Pripyat, Polissia, Poltavshchina and Cherkashchina. Ensemble "Drevo" has kept features of local musical stylistics (canvas , characteristic sound, a melodic variation, ornamentation) and a language dialect. |
UKRAINIA ETHNIC MUSIC CD: Forgotten Songs of Ukrainians  This music is vanishing away. Unique authentic music recordings made at the end of the last century during folklore research expeditions on both banks of Dneper River in Kiev District of Ukraine. read more and hear |
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