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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. It also has a very strong indigenous Slavic and Christian uniqueness whose elements were used among the areas that surround modern Ukraine.[1]

Ukraine is also the rarely acknowledged musical heartland of the former Russian Empire, home to its first professional music academy, which opened in the mid-18th century and produced numerous early musicians and composers.[2]


Modern Ukraine is situated north of the Black Sea, previously part of the Soviet Union. Several of its ethnic groups living within Ukraine have their own unique musical traditions and some have developed specific musical traditions in association with the land in which they live.

Ritual songs show the greatest tendency to preservation. They are frequently in recitative style, essentially , based on notes in the range of a third or a fourth. An example of this style is the theme for the Shchedrivka "Shchedryk" known in the West as "Carol of the Bells".

monodic

A large group of Ukrainian ritual melodies fall within a perfect fourth with the main central tone as the lowest note. Many of the ritual Easter melodies known as fall into this category. The tetrachordal system is also found in wedding and harvest songs. Folk dances often have melodies based on two tetrachords fused together.

Haivky

The pentatonic scale in form is common in spring songs known as Vesnianky.

anhemitonic

The bulk of Ukrainian folk songs melodies are based on scales identical to mеdieval , but differ in melodic structure. The Mixolydian and Dorian modes are used more often than Ionian and Aeolian modes. This is a feature of traditional paraliturgical Koliadky.

modes

The augmented 2nd interval is found, as well as the raising of the fourth and seventh degree of the scale. It is often used for melodic expression. This melodic manner gives an effect that is described as adding severe tension or sadness in some Ukrainian songs. The phenomenon is not found in Russian folk songs and is thought to have been introduced or developed in the 17th century.

– avantgarde and folk singer and composer

Mariana Sadovska

historicist lutenist-composer

Roman Turovsky

Dakha Brakha

Dakh Daughters

- a classical music orchestra that also plays contemporary music

New Era Orchestra

- techno-punk with obscene lyrics

HZV (music group)

- ska-punk with folk elements

Zhadan i Sobaky

Pop music[edit]

Pop music in Ukraine is Western influenced pop music in its various forms that has been growing in popularity in Ukraine since the 1960s. The 1970s saw the emergence of a number of folk rock groups such as Kobza. Major contributions were made by songwriter Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Oleksandr Bilash. After Ivasyuk's death in 1979, developments in Ukrainian pop music almost ground to a halt. Even established folk-rock groups such as Kobza began to sing in Russian.


The revival of Ukrainian pop music emerged in 1990s after Ukraine gained an independence. The Chervona Ruta Festival played an important role in popularisation and evolution of the modern Ukrainian song. In 2004 Ruslana was a first Ukrainian singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest.


Until the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out in 2014, the Russian language was widely used by Ukrainian artists in order to also reach audiences outside Ukraine who could understand Russian.[4] Russian-language songs gradually lost popularity in Ukraine after 2014, while Ukrainian-language music experienced a surge; this trend accelerated when the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.[4] Muzvar music journalist Julian Novak stated in July 2022: 'Many popular artists have decided to switch to the Ukrainian language, and change their existing Russian-language repertoire to Ukrainian.'[4] The war became an increasingly prominent theme in songs, with lyrics about consolation in trying times of losing loved ones and having to flee one's home and country, but also the courage to go on.[4] New musical tracks from Ukraine also incorporated ever more elements of Ukrainian folklore, such as the remake of a traditional lullaby by Eurovision Song Contest 2022 winner "Stefania", and the use of the traditional flute.[4]

. 1813–1873. Opera composer, singer (baritone), actor, and dramatist, whose best known work is the comic opera Zaporozhets za Dunayem

Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

. 1877–1921. Composer. Best known worldwide for his arrangement of Shchedryk, which became known in North America as "Carol of the Bells."

Mykola Leontovych

. 1889–1977. Composer, teacher, and activist. Known for introducing Ukrainian music motives combined with western composing style.

Levko Revutsky

[1]. 1751–1825. Ukrainian liturgical composer. Born Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

Dmytro Bortniansky

. 1875–1956. Composer. Born in Kyiv.

Reinhold Gliere

. 1888–1956. Ukrainian classical composer and teaching professor.

Mykola Vilinsky

. Ukrainian classical and popular song composer. His best known song is Dva Kolery (Two Colors).

Oleksandr Bilash

. Ukrainian classical composer.

Myroslav Skoryk

. 1949–1979. Ukrainian popular song composer. His best known song is Chervona Ruta.

Volodymyr Ivasiuk

modern Ukrainian "minimalistic music" composer. His best known work is "Quiet songs" for bariton voice.

Valentin Silvestrov

1964– Ukrainian contemporary composer of symphony, chamber, choir and vocal music.

Julia Gomelskaya

1976– Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music

Svitlana Azarova

Aleksandr Shymko

1977– jazz-fusion guitarist, composer, producer. Independent Music Awards winner.

Roman Miroshnichenko

Composer. Conductor of Las Vegas Symphony.

Virko Baley

1899–1979. Born Poltava, Ukraine. American film composer (Academy Award for score of movie High Noon, also best song from that movie "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling"). A U.S.A. postage stamp was issued in his honor.

Dmitri Tiomkin

Ukrainian-Canadian composer.

Gary Kulesha

Victor Mishalow

Alexis Kochan

Julian Kytasty

Roman Turovsky

Darka and Slavko

DakhaBrakha

Polish composer, born in Ukraine.

Karol Szymanowski

Scholarship[edit]

The Polyphony Project, which is funded in part by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, and which aims to "explore, preserve and present the living musical folklore of Ukrainian villages", has an online archive of Ukrainian folk music.[16]

Rock Music in Ukraine

Pop Music in Ukraine

Ukrainian hip hop

Ukrainian metal

Ukrainian folk music

Torban

Kobza

Bandura

Preservation of kobzar music

Ensemble Nostri Temporis

Zaporizhian March

Trembita

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