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Treasures of Ukrainian Folk Music. Traditional Songs and Instrumental Music of the Left-Bank of Kyiv Region
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About Treasures Of Ukrainian Folk Music. Traditional
For about 400 years, the Ukrainian people were in Russian slavery. The Russian empire and then the Soviet Union did everything to wipe out the original Ukrainian culture and assimilate it and the Ukrainian people among the numerous nationalities belonging to the empire. But it is impossible to destroy the distinctive culture of a freedom-loving people. From generation to generation, Ukrainian people have kept the treasures of their distinctive culture and carried them to the present time. This CD is the endeavor to document the truly tradition of antiquity that has been vanishing for many centuries, to enrich folk music chronicle and to reserve the document of the epoch at the turn of millenniums. . The album represent musical tradition of Left-bank Ukraine. The records were made in the villages, situated in the basin of the Supiy river, a tributary of the Dnieper. The musical folklore of the left-bank Kyiv region was formed under the considerable influence of original historic-social processes that took place here. After the Tartar-Mongolian invasion in the 13th century and further devastation, caused by frequent Tartar raids, the free lands began to populate again little by little. From the middle of the 17th century Yagotin and Basan' Cossack squadrons of Peresliv regiment (military alignments, arisen in the war against Rzeczpospolita) quartered here in a number of villages. After the war - from 1667 - left-bank Ukraine became a part of Russian empire and this affected largely the lexis, the set of musical instruments, the repertoire of songs and dances.
