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Ukrainian folk music, the Glossary

Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.^[1]

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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alexander Koshetz

Alexander Koshetz (12 September 1875 – 21 September 1944) was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer.

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Alexis Kochan

Alexis Kochan (Алексіс Коxан) is a Ukrainian–Canadian composer and singer.

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Anatoliy Borysovych Solovianenko (Анатолій Борисович Солов'яненко; Анатолий Борисович Соловья́ненко; 25 September 1932 – 29 July 1999) was a Ukrainian operatic tenor, People's Artist of the USSR (1975), People's Artist of Ukraine, and State Taras Shevchenko prize-winner.

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And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (Quiet Flows the Don or The Silent Don, Тихий Дон, literally The Quiet Don) is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov.

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Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.

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Aria

In music, an aria (arie,; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta,;: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Balalaika

The balalaika (балала́йка) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings.

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Ballet (music)

Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it.

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Bandura

A bandura (бандура) is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument. Ukrainian folk music and bandura are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Basolia

The basolia (Басо́ля, basy or basetla) is a Ukrainian or Polish folk instrument of the bowed string family similar to the cello, although usually slightly larger and not as sophisticated in construction. Ukrainian folk music and basolia are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Batih

The batih (батіг) is a thick stick that is rhythmically tapped on the floor in some Ukrainian folkloric groups. Ukrainian folk music and batih are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Bayan (accordion)

The bayan (p) is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in the Russian Empire in the early 20th century and named after the 11th-century bard Boyan. Ukrainian folk music and bayan (accordion) are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Borys Hmyria

Borys Romanovych Hmyria (Борис Романович Гмиря), also known as Boris Romanovich Gmyrya(Борис Романович Гмыря; August 1, 1969) PAU, was a Soviet and Ukrainian bass singer of opera and art song.

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Boyan Ensemble

The Boyan Ensemble is a touring choir formed from many of the most accomplished voices from the L. Revutsky Cappella of Ukraine.

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Briazkalnytsia

The briazkaltsia (брязкальця) is a Ukrainian folk instrument consisting of copper or brass plates strung from a wire. Ukrainian folk music and Briazkalnytsia are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Bubon

The bubon (бубон) is a Ukrainian percussive folk instrument, of the tambourine family. Ukrainian folk music and bubon are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Buhay

The buhay (бугай) (also known as a bugai, buhai, berebenytsia, bika, buga, bochka) is a musical instrument that is used in Ukraine and is classified as a friction drum. Ukrainian folk music and buhay are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Bukhalo

The bukhalo (Ukrainian folk drum kit based on a bass drum) is a type of large drum often used in dance music, particularly popular in Sorbia, Belarus, Russia, Western Ukraine and Balkan brass. Ukrainian folk music and bukhalo are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Canadian Bandurist Capella

The Canadian Bandurist Capella (Капеля Бандуристів Канади) is a vocal-instrumental ensemble that combines the sounds of male choral singing with the orchestral accompaniment of the multi-stringed Ukrainian bandura.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi (Чернівці,; Cernăuți,; see also other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River.

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Chromatic button accordion

A chromatic button accordion is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard consists of rows of buttons arranged chromatically.

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Cimbalom

The cimbalom, cimbal or concert cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box on legs with metal strings stretched across its top and a damping pedal underneath. Ukrainian folk music and cimbalom are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Cittern

The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Cossack songs

Cossack songs are folk songs which were created by Cossacks.

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Dentsivka

The dentsivka (Денцівка) is a woodwind musical instrument with a fipple (mouthpiece). Ukrainian folk music and dentsivka are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Derkach

Derkach (Cyrillic: Деркач) is a Ukrainian surname meaning a ratchet, noisemaker.

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Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, television personality, and the chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940s.

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Dnipro

Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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Domra

The domra (Cyrillic: до́мра) is a long-necked Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian folk string instrument of the lute family with a round body and three or four metal strings. Ukrainian folk music and domra are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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Drohobych

Drohobych (Дрогобич,; Drohobycz; drohobitsh) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

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DuBose Heyward

Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy.

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Duda

The Hungarian duda (also known as tömlősíp and bőrduda) is the traditional bagpipe of Hungary.

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Duma (epic)

A Duma (дума, plural dumy) is a sung epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the Sixteenth century (possibly based on earlier Kyivan epic forms).

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Dumka (musical genre)

Dumka (думка, dúmka, plural думки, dúmky) is a musical term introduced from the Ukrainian language, with cognates in other Slavic languages.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (Філарет Михайлович Колесса; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic.

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Floyara

The floyara (Флояра) (Floyarka) is a more perfected form of the sopilka. Ukrainian folk music and floyara are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Frilka

The frilka (Фрілка) is a more perfected form of the sopilka, a traditional Ukrainian flute. Ukrainian folk music and frilka are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.

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Gudok

The gudok (гудок), gudochek (гудочек) is an ancient Eastern Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow. Ukrainian folk music and gudok are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Gusli

Gusli (p) is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board. Ukrainian folk music and Gusli are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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History of the United States (1865–1917)

The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States.

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Hnat Khotkevych

Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych (Гнат Мартинович Хоткевич, also Gnat Khotkevich or Hnat Khotkevych, born December 31, 1877 – died October 8, 1938) was a Ukrainian theater and public figure, engineer, inventor, writer, historian, translator, ethnographer, art critic, playwright, screenwriter, composer, musicologist, violinist, pianist, baritone, bandurist, and teacher.

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Hornpipe (instrument)

The hornpipe can refer to a specific instrument or a class of woodwind instruments consisting of a single reed, a large diameter melody pipe with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn.

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Hryhoriy Veryovka

Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka (Григорій Гурійович Верьовка, – 21 October 1964) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and choir director.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. Ukrainian folk music and hurdy-gurdy are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Ivan Kozlovsky

Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (Ива́н Семё́нович Козло́вский; Ivan Semenovych Kozlovskyi); also referred to as Kozlovskiy or Kozlovskij; 21 December 1993) was a Soviet lyric tenor and one of the most well known stars of Russian opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jew's harp

The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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Joe Hickerson

Joseph C. Hickerson (born October 20, 1935, in Highland Park, Illinois) is an American folk singer and musicologist.

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Kalatalo

The kalatalo (калатало) (also known as kalatailo, kalatalka, torokhkalo, stukalo, stukalka, torokhkavka, klepalo, bovkalo) is a Ukrainian folk instrument used in folk ensembles whenever a drum or tambourine is not available. Ukrainian folk music and kalatalo are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький) is a city in western Ukraine.

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Klyment Kvitka

Klyment Vasilyovich Kvitka (Климент Васильович Квітка; February 4, 1880 – September 19, 1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet musicologist and ethnographer, and the husband of poet Lesya Ukrainka.

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Kobza

The kobza (кобза), also called bandura (бандура) is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. Ukrainian folk music and kobza are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Kobzar

A kobzar (кобзар, pl. kobzari кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed kobza or bandura.

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Koza (bagpipe)

A Koza (meaning "goat") is the generic term for one of five basic types of bagpipes used in Polish folk music.

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Kozobas

The kozobas (Козобас) is a bowed and percussive instrument that is popular in folk ensembles in Western Ukraine. Ukrainian folk music and kozobas are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Kuvytsi

The kuvytsi (Кувиці), kugikly, kuvikly (Кугиклы, Кувиклы) are the Ukrainian and Russian variant of pan pipes. Ukrainian folk music and kuvytsi are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Kvitka Cisyk

Kvitka "Kacey" Cisyk (Квітка Цісик; Квітослава-Орися Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk; April 4, 1953, The Ukrainian Week (11 April 2013) – March 29, 1998) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity.

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Kyiv Bandurist Capella

The Kyiv Bandurist Capella (translit) is a male vocal-instrumental ensemble that accompanies its singing with the playing of the multi-stringed Ukrainian folk instrument known as the bandura.

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Levko Revutsky

Levko Mykolaiovych Revutsky (– 30 March 1977) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, pedagogue, and public figure.

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Lira (Ukrainian instrument)

The lira, or relia, (ліра) is a Ukrainian variant of the hurdy-gurdy, an instrument which can trace its history back to the 10th century. Ukrainian folk music and lira (Ukrainian instrument) are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Lirnyk

The lirnyks (Ukrainian: лірник; plural: лірники – lirnyky) were itinerant Ukrainian musicians who performed religious, historical and epic songs to the accompaniment of a lira, the Ukrainian version of the hurdy-gurdy.

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Lullaby

A lullaby, or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep).

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Lutsk

Lutsk (Луцьк,; see below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine.

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Lytavry

The lytavry (Литаври) (also tulumbasy) are a bass drum similar to the kettle drums or timpani used in Ukraine. Ukrainian folk music and lytavry are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. Ukrainian folk music and mandolin are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Marusia Churai

Maria or Marusia Churai (1625–1653) was a mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer.

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Medley (music)

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces played one after another, sometimes overlapping.

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Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (p; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (In his day, the name was written Модестъ Петровичъ Мусоргскій.|Modest Petrovich Musorgsky|mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj|Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; –) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five".

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Music of Ukraine

Ukrainian music covers diverse and multiple component elements of the music that is found in the Western and Eastern musical civilization.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (Микола Віталійович Лисенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period.

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Myroslav Skoryk

Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk (Мирослав Михайлович Скорик; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher.

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Nina Matviienko

Nina Mytrofanivna Matviienko (Ніна Митрофанівна Матвієнко; 10 October 1947 – 8 October 2023) was a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine.

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Ocarina

The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute.

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Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon

"Oy Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon" is a Ukrainian lullaby.

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Oleksandr Shymko

Oleksandr Arturovich Shymko (Шимко Олександр Артурович), born 4 August 1977 in Borshchiv, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian composer and pianist.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Organology

Organology (from Ancient Greek ὄργανον 'instrument' and λόγος, 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications.

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Overtone flute

An overtone flute is a type of a flute that is designed to play in the upper harmonics, typically well above the two or three harmonics that are the practical limit for most woodwind instruments.

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Pan flute

A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Ukrainian folk music and pan flute are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Pesniary

Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, Песняры) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Pidkova

The pidkova (Підкова), literally "Horseshoe". Ukrainian folk music and pidkova are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.

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Polesia

Polesia, Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain, including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region.

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Poltava

Poltava (Полтава) is a city located on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Porgy (novel)

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.

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Ratchet (instrument)

A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device.

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Rebec

The rebec (sometimes rebecha, rebeckha, and other spellings, pronounced or) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Medieval era and the early Renaissance.

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Repertoire

A repertoire is a list or set of dramas, operas, musical compositions or roles which a company or person is prepared to perform.

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Rih (instrument)

The rih (ріг, "horn"; рожок) is an instrument that was popular in Eastern Ukraine and Russia, with between three and six fingerholes. Ukrainian folk music and rih (instrument) are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Rivne

Rivne (Рівне) is a city in western Ukraine.

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Semantron

The semantron (σήμαντρον) is a percussion instrument used in Eastern, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monasteries to summon the monastics to prayer or at the start of a procession.

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Seven-string guitar

The seven-string guitar adds one additional string to the more common six-string guitar, commonly used to extend the bass range (usually a low B) or also to extend the treble range.

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Shawm

The shawm is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.

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Simferopol

Simferopol, also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula.

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Skripka

Skripka or Skrypka is a surname, meaning "violin" in Russian and Ukrainian.

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Slavs

The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.

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Sopilka

Sopilka (Cопiлка) is a name applied to a variety of woodwind instruments of the flute family used by Ukrainian folk instrumentalists. Ukrainian folk music and Sopilka are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spirituals

Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade.

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Spoon (musical instrument)

Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets.

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Summertime (George Gershwin song)

"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

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Surma-horn

The Ukrainian surma (Сурма) is a type of shawm that had widespread use in the armies of the Cossack host. Ukrainian folk music and surma-horn are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Telenka

The telenka (Теленка) (telynka, tylynka) is an overtone flute, a primitive form of dentsivka without fingerholes. Ukrainian folk music and telenka are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Theorbo

The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox.

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Torban

The torban (Торбан, also teorban or Ukrainian theorbo) is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. Ukrainian folk music and torban are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Trembita

The trembita (from the old Germanic trumba, "to trumpet", in Ukrainian трембíта) is a type of an alpine horn made of wood. Ukrainian folk music and trembita are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Truba

The Wooden Trumpet (truba (Труба) Lihava, Cossack Trumpet, Sihnal'na truba). Ukrainian folk music and truba are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tsymbaly

The tsymbaly (цимбали) is the Ukrainian version of the hammer dulcimer. Ukrainian folk music and tsymbaly are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Tulumbas

Memorial sign "Tulumbas" (Пам'ятний знак "Склик") is a memorial to nature and history created for the National Historical and Cultural Preserve "Chyhyryn", located in the Kholodnyi Yar reserve.

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Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus

The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus (Українська Капеля Бандуристів Північної Америки ім.; full name: The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America) is a semi-professional male choir which accompanies itself with the multi-stringed Ukrainian ethnic instrument known as the bandura.

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Ukrainian Republic Capella

The Ukrainian Republic Capella (Українська республіканська капела; later known as the Ukrainian National Chorus) was a musical company during and after World War I which toured Europe and North America with the intent to promote Ukrainian culture abroad.

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Uzhhorod

Uzhhorod (Ужгород) is a city and municipality on the Uzh River in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary.

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Verbovaya Doshchechka

The Willow Board (Verbova doshchechka) is a Ukrainian folk song that is traditionally sung during an ancient traditional Ukrainian spring game called the Willow Board (Verbova Doshchechka) also known under many other alternative Ukrainin names such as Noise (Shum), via Bridges (Mostamy), Bug (Zhuk or Zhuchok), Goalkeeper (Vorotar) etc.

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Victor Mishalow

Victor Mishalow (Віктор Мiшалов) (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian-born Canadian bandurist, educator, composer, conductor, and musicologist.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Volynka

The volynka (волинка, коза, волынка, tulup zurna – see also duda, and koza) is a bagpipe. Ukrainian folk music and volynka are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a folk song written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955.

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White voice

White voice (translit, biały głos, translit) or white singing (translit, biały śpiew, translit) is a contemporary name, used usually in Eastern Europe, for a traditional singing style.

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Yes, My Darling Daughter

"Yes, My Darling Daughter" is a 1940 song by Jack Lawrence first introduced by Dinah Shore on Eddie Cantor's radio program on October 24, 1940.

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Yevhen Stankovych

Yevhen Fedorovych Stankovych (Євге́н Фе́дорович Станко́вич; born September 19, 1942) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works.

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Zatula

The zatula (Затула), also known as the rubal, rubel, kuchelka, kachanka, kachalka, and the rebra, is a Ukrainian folk musical instrument. Ukrainian folk music and zatula are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr (Житомир; see below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine.

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Zubivka

The zubivka (Зубівка, 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. Ukrainian folk music and zubivka are Ukrainian musical instruments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_folk_music

Also known as Ethnic Ukrainian music, Ukrainian folk instrument, Ukrainian folk instruments, Ukrainian folk melodies, Ukrainian folk song, Ukrainian folk songs.

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Folk music by country

Ukrainian musical instruments

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