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Drevo Ancient Ukrainian Folk Music. - Christian Themes In Ukrainian Folk Songs Play Hifi Lofi License BUY Artist Photo One Thousand Years Ago With The Ward Of Christianity To Ukraine The Culture On These Grounds Did Not Begin Anew But Its New Page Was Opened. Alongside With The Partially Kept Prior Archaic Layers And On Their Basis Christianity Has Formed Other Original Forms Of Culture Genres And Styles.The Influence Of These Processes On National Music Was Especially Expressive. In Pagan Times The Kolyadkas 1 4 5 7-11 14 16 18 20 21 And Shchedrivkas 2 15 17 19 Were A Component Of Sacramentals Related With New Year Day And Vernal Equinox. In Later Time Kolyadkas And Shchedrivkas Christmas Carols Became A Symbol Of Christmastime And Other Biblical Dates And Events. Obviously Such Reassess Of Function Has Served As The Reason Of A Semantic And Stylistic Variety Of Kolyadkas And Shchedrivkas 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 6 . The Closest Relation With Orthodox Christian Religious Doctrine And Ideology And Also With Church Service Music Is Observed In Folk Canticles 3 12 13 And Polychronions 20 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 Musical Stylistics Of The Folk Compositions Represented On The Disk Shows Different Stages Of Ukrainian Folk Singing History. Besides It Is Caused By The Certain Regional Tradition. The Heterophone Kolyadkas And Shchedrivkas From Polissia North Ukraine Are The Most Archaic. The Manner Of Their Performance Is Especially Ceremonial And Reminds A Wail 2 8 11 . In Other Regions Of Ukraine Such Manner Of Singing Is Of Rare Occurrence 15 . The Characteristics Of The Later Stylistic Features Are Adding Of An Independent Top Voice To A Song Melody 9 14 17 18 Expansion And Enriching The Canvas With Additional Voices 1 12 . So It Forms Chord-Harmonic Canticle Style Of 17-18 Centuries 3 4 5 7 10 13 16 20 22 And Change Vocal Manner To Church Singing 5 16 . Dniper Livoberezhzhia Singing 3 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 8 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. The Ensemble "Drevo" Founded In Kiev In 1979 Has Begun The Movement For Authentic Reproduction Of Traditional Peasant Music In Musical Culture Of Ukraine. The Art Director Is An Ethnomusicologist The Candidate Of An Art Criticism Senior Lecturer Of National Musical Academy Of Ukraine Eugeny Efremov. The Ensemble Consists Of The Young Scientists Who Collect And Investigate Traditional National Music Of Different Regions Of Ukraine - Mainly Polissia Podillia And Livobverezhzhia - For Many Years. "Drevo" Recovers The Material Gathered In Ethnographic Expeditions Without Additional Art Processing Keeping Its Natural Original Form. read less