Many of its ethnic groups living within Ukraine have their own unique musical traditions. The most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes. Ritual songs of Ukraine are frequently in recitative style, essentially monodic. For example, Shchedrivka "Shchedryk"
known in the West as "Carol of the Bells". The bulk of Ukrainian folk
songs melodies are based on scales identical to mеdieval modes, but
differ in melodic structure.
Traditional Ukrainian instruments are:
kobza (lute), bandura, violin, basolya (3-string cello), lira
(hurdy-gurdy), tsymbaly, sopilka (duct flute), trembita (alpenhorn),
fife, volynka (bagpipes), buben (frame drum), tulumbas (kettledrum),
resheto (tambourine) and drymba / varhan (Jaw harp).
Troyisti muzyky
are traditional instrumental ensembles of Ukraine. Literally it means
"three musicians" who typically make up the ensemble, for example,
violin, sopilka and buben.
Traditional dances of Ukraine are:Kozak,
Kozachok, Hopak, Hrechanyky, Tropak, Kolomyjka and Hutsulka, Shumka,
Arkan, Metelytsia, Kateryna (Kadryl) and Chabarashka.
There are also
dances originating outside Ukraine, but which are quite popular: Polka,
Krakowiak, Mazurka, Barynya, Csárdás, Waltz and Kamarynska.
Ukrainian instrumental and dance music has also influenced Jewish and Gypsy music.
The first professional music academy was set up in Hlukhiv,
Ukraine in 1738 where students were taught to sing, play violin and
bandura from manuscripts. As a result, many of the earliest composers
and performers within the Russian empire were ethnically Ukrainian,
having been born, or educated, in Hlukhiv, or had been closely
associated with this music school. Ukrainian national school of
classical music was spearheaded by Mykola Lysenko. This school includes such composers as Mykola Leontovych, Kyrylo Stetsenko and Levko Revutsky. Most of their music contains Ukrainian folk figures and are composed to Ukrainian texts.
There
are also many famous composers and performers of non-Ukrainian
ethnicity who were born, or at some time were citizens, or were active
in Ukraine. Among them are: Franz Xavier Mozart, Rheinhold Gliere, Isaak Dunayevsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Yuliy Meitus. Among famous performers are Volodymyr Horovyts, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh and Isaac Stern.
The music of these composers rarely contains Ukrainian folk motives and
are more often written to the texts of Russian, or Polish poets.
Published by Ehor Polishchuk
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