DREVO- UKRAINIAN FOLK MUSIC
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Drevo brings back to light old traditions of Ukrainian folk music steeped in its own harmonies, scales and techniques. One thousand years ago with the ward of Christianity to Ukraine the culture on these Slavic grounds did not begin anew, but its new page was opened. Alongside with the partially kept prior archaic layers and on their basis, the Christianity has formed other original forms of culture, genres and styles.
The influence of these processes on Ukrainian folk music was especially expressive.
In pagan times the Ukrainian Christmas music- Kolyadkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) (tracks # 1,4,5,7-11,14,16,18,20,21) and Shchedrivkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) (tracks # 2,15,17,19) were a component of sacramentals related with New Year Day and vernal equinox. In later time Kolyadkas and Shchedrivkas (Ukrainian Christmas carols) became a symbol of Christmas time and other biblical dates and events. Obviously, such reassess of function has served as the reason of a semantic and stylistic variety of Ukrainian Christmas carols, 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 (¹6). The closest relation with Orthodox Church Christian religious doctrine and ideology, and also with Church service music is observed in folk canticles (¹3,12,13) and polychronions (¹20,22).
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