DREVO- UKRAINIAN FOLK MUSIC
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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)
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