Hutsul music from the village of Kosmach

  

The Kosmach Musicians

2004 

Tracks:

MOUNTAIN MEADOW SONGS

1 Signal of the ascent into the mountain meadows on trembita and horn Play
2 Shepherd melodies on the jaw harp
3 "Arkan", dance of the shepherds and the opryshky, or mountain bandits, on trembita
4 "Arkan" on tsymbali, fiddle, double flute and drum. Play
5 Entrance into the mountain meadows on trembita with fanfare
6 "Oh i will go up into Mountain Meadows", a rhyming song
7 Shepherd melodies on telenka
8 Shepherd melodies on double flute
9 Mountain meadow melody
10 Medley of Hutsul melodies

WEDDING SONGS

11 Beginning of the wedding
a. On the way to the house
b. The parents come out of the house c. The Welcoming of the musicians
d. Accompaniment for singing
e. The musicians for singing
f. "Oh, Lord may This Be a Good Time"
12 "The Hutsul Girl", a fast dance tune
13 "Oh, the Green Evergreens", a wedding incantation by the matchmakers
14 "Oh, Lord May This Be a Good Time" as a march for the bridal couple Play
15 "At the table" music for singing
16 a. Fiddle and double flute duet
b. Tsymbaly and double flute duet
17 Accompaniment to wedding incantation
18 Fiddle solo
19 "Hopak", a dance tune
20 "The Blue Cornflower", a dance tune
21 Dance Medley
22 Accompaniment for the bridal couple
23 Wedding drinking song
24 "The Dove", a dance tune
25 "Mykyta"

WINTER SONGS

26 "The Winter Song Singers Are Coming" on trembita and horn
27 "Behind the Pen in the Yard", a winter song Play
28 Well-wishing
29 Trembita as the winter song singers leave

  

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Kosmach - is the heart of Hutsul. Perhaps the greatest and real pearl of the village not only Region, but also in Ukraine.
32 priselke with poetic names: Mel, Dil, deterioration, Rushir, Preluki, Pochosy, Zavoyely - like sunlight adorn the mountains to the village center.
Kosmach - "Sun Valley", "Sun Bowl" - here a special cosmos, cosmic forces, sunny colors of the Carpathian nature kindled in the hearts of God kosmachan that spark that has for centuries burning unquenchable creative flame. Here in every house living artists: weave, embroider, rizblyat, painted Easter eggs of rare beauty, maystruyut musical instruments played.
Kosmatsky traditional clothing and embroidery win all the colors of the sun. Space characters sky, sun, stars - at Kosmatsky pysanka. Vohnystyy temperament Kosmatsky musicians bare beauty of the natural environment ... When a rocky Gregor which make the thunder, the mountains ring with turbulent flows and violent wind wins fir their eternal melody, while the giant meadow Chuhayster gets in his mad dance - this time born in Kosmachi music.
Some magnetic force attracted to Kosmach many Ukrainian poets, writers, musicians, artists: Alex Nowakowski, Michael Frost, Gregory Smolsky, Filaret and Mykola Kolessa, Stanislaus Lyudkevych, Ostap Lysenko, Irene Wilde, Lina Kostenko, Ivan Svitlychny, John Mykolaychuka Ivasiuk ... You can name many more famous names of those who sought to Kosmachi inspiration. Kosmachany as a precious treasure, retain their ancient customs and musical tradition. Glory of Kosmatsky folk music has long moved beyond the Carpathians and the Ukraine. In the village by this time there are many instrumental wedding chapel. Folklore from ancient recorded and exploring musical authenticity Kosmach, here in the last 150 years found more than 100 musicians, wedding chapel. Even in times of Austro-Hungary showed Kosmatsky wedding in Vienna, Lviv. Hutsul Chapel with the U.S. running Dmitry Tkachuk performed many songs and wedding music from Kosmach. In the television movie "Carpathian Resources", "Kosmach" fixed tradition Kosmatsky wedding ceremony.
In 2001 one of the choirs were invited to the Third World Theatrical Olympiad. Chapel, organized cymbalist virtuoso Michael Rybchuk, performed with great success in the program which was music of the mountains and valleys - from the Carpathians to Tibet, and on Moscow television.
In this CD can be divided into 3 cycles of ritual music that accompany the rite of spring - "Get On the mountain," the summer - "Wedding" and winter - "Koliada."
We hope that students of this disc will discover an interesting page original culture of Hutsul.
Lesia Turianska

 

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Kosmach is village in the heart of the Hutsul region of the Carpathian Mountains. it is one of the largest and most enchanting villages in Ukraine. Very talented people have preserved the traditional rituals, customs, crafts and music here. It seems that every house has its own musicians that play on traditional instruments made by Kosmach master craftsmen. Fiddles, tsymbali (hammer dulcimers), and flutes make up the traditional wedding band. The trembita, or mountain horn, accompanies the winter song singers at Christmastime, and also calls mourners to funerals, and shepherds to the mountain meadows in the spring.

 

  

There exist Tibetan monks in this world who travel, relate, show – and perform their Tibetan music. By any chance, have you ever heard them performing? If you have, probably you will be surprised with this recording, since the distance between the Tibet and the Carpathian Mountains is so big, but still the music of these regions has something in common, even something allied. The question is – where from? Yet, on the other hand, both are mountains, and it means that they are closer to the sky. As you know, in the sky the roots grow and communicate according to their own laws, which are not at all earthly. That is why all that is not surprising. Quite different things should be surprising – why people can seldom find a common language. Immediately one of the answers appears – since when you communicate with the help of words, practically always there is something fallacious and incomplete present in this communication. It happens because every person has his or her personal thesaurus in his or her head. And one of the decisions may be heard right now – because music is nearly the most universal language among all human and non-human languages. This is not even a theorem; it is simply a fact, and frankly speaking, a joyful fact. Its joy lies not in the hope for a possible harmonious communication, but in the fact that this communication exists now and keeps on existing. You should only see it. Or, to be exact, to hear. To feel.

Anton Jozhik Lejba (Hedgehog)

 

       

  

Trembita (see track 01)

  

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Actually, in the Carpathian Mountains trembita is still used in a practical way. As in many places highly in mountains there is no phone connection than different melodies of this instrument can tell all the important massages that can be heard at a distance of 10 km. Traditionally trembita is used by mountain dwellers. With the help of this instrument is given a signal about the biggest spring holiday in Hutsul Land, when the shepherds are going to the mountain meadows, and, of cause, when they go back in autumn. Besides, the sounds of trembita can tell about danger or about somebody’s death. There is an old tradition to meet guests with the sounds of trembita.

 

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Üdvözöljük a Técsői Banda!

  

Técsői Banda

Ruszin Népzene
Rusin Folk Music from the upper Tisza region
2002

Tracks:

01. A vofelybot diszitese... (1'52")
02. A fiuk kiprobaljak... (4'00")
03. Mars (4'06")
04. Roman dallamok... (2'59")
05. Menet a lakodalmas... (1'17")
06. Kalácstánc a lakodalmas... (2'13")
07. Kárpáti kolomejkák (2'49")
08. Bucsu a legenysegtol (2'12")
09. Kolomejka... (10'13")
10. Menyasszonytanc (3'25")
11. Vendegbucsu (2'52")
12. Asztalozo (0'39")
13. Asztalozo... (1'34")
14. Szkarani (román ugrós) (1'56")
15. Roman ciganytanc (1'27")
16. Ciganycsardas (2'20")
17. 'Baj van, baj van...' (2'33")
18. Havasi kurt utanzasa hegedun (2'13")
19. Huculka (2'01")
20. Regi olah tanc (1'19")
21. Nyila (1'31")
22. Koljatka - koszonto (2'18")
23. Roman tancok (4'22")
24. Hucul tanc (7'43")

Duration (70'52")

Técsői Banda:

Joszip Csernavec Georgijovics „Jóska” (1945) – bajan
Mihailo Csernavec Jurijovics „Misu” (1947) – little cimbalom
Jurij Csernavec Olexandrovics „Júra” (1951) – drum, plonka, Jew’s harp, voice
Ivan Popovics Mikolajovics „Iván” (1958) – violin
Petro Babics Sztyepanovics (1952) – violin, voice

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"The Técső Band – playing the traditional Ukrainian-Rusin music of the Máramarosians – is one of the best-known bands of the crown town, which lies on the upper part of the river Tisza. The accordionist Jóska Csernavec and his brothers are the descendants of a reputed gypsy dynasty, but the band’s violinists are not family members. Somehow playing violin was not inherited within the family. All of them learnt the musical style from their ancestors. Their diverse repertoire – because of the strong interethnic influence – features local Romanian, Gypsy, Jewish, Russian and Hungarian songs. I made my first recordings with them at the beginning of the 70’s. At that time, the legendary father Jura Csernavec “Manyo” played the violin.

Unfortunately, his virtuoso performance survived only on a single cassette in bad quality. The band often performs on weddings, on funerals, on Christmas and on the fest of “Misána” (sheep clipping). Their instrument kit includes violin, neckwear cimbalom, bajan (that is an accordion with buttons) and drum equipped with cymbal. The drummer uses a plastic sheet called plonka. He operates this by pressing it between his lower denture and his gum, playing tunes or sometimes playing only to enhance the rhythm of the dance.

Present recordings were made on two occasions with two different primates. On the first part of the album, we can hear wedding music on the second part dance music. During the editorial work, my ambition was to have the band record the most interesting pieces in our studio. I was hoping that many others would love the music of the “unknown land” as much as I love them."

says recording editor Ferenc Kiss.

 

Coming from the village of Tyachiv  (Técső in Hungarian) in the far western Ukraine, the Técső Band is one of the last full time professional traditional ensembles which makes its living playing for village weddings and events in the Hutsul region of the Carpathian mountains. This is an area with a very mixed ethnic composition, and to be successful a band needs to master the specific repertoires of a multitude of ethnic groups.  Accordionist Yoshka Cherniavets are the son, and drummer Yuryy arethe cousinof the late Manyo Cherniavets, a renowned fiddler and band leader who was the Gypsy musician called to play for Jewish weddings in the region. Along with tsymbaly player Misha Cherniavets, the Técső Band continued the tradition of playing a rich multiethnic repertoire encompassing Hutsul Ukrainian, Romanian, Jewish Klezmer, Gypsy, Slovak, Russian, and
Hungarian music in a single performance. Fiddler Ivan Popovych took over as lead fiddler with the death of Manyo. Sadly, tsymbaly player Misha died in 2006. His replacement,the virtuosic Vassilyy Hudak, is the music teacher at the localschool. Since 2010, tsymbaly player of the band is the young Mikhaylo Magula, has a superb understanding and feeling for the musical style of this mountainous region.

 

 

Técsői Banda: The Last Kolomejka

I've know the guys from the Técsői Band for almost a decade, ever since Kiss Feri from Etnofone Records started bringing this amazing Hutsul band to Hungary for festivals. One of the last functioning traditional bands in the region - in the sense that playing their traditional repetoire in their community as a full time job - the Técsői Banda hail from the western Ukraine, just across the border from Hungary in the multi-ethnic village of Tjaciv, known in Hungarian as Técső (there is a large Hungarian speaking minority, and most of the band can speak Hungarian alongside Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Romani.) Truly a band of brothers (with one in-law, Ivan) the Técsői band are the sons of Manyo Csernovec, a Gypsy fiddler and and leader who was reknowned in the western Ukraine as the preferred musician for local Jewish and Hungarian events, alongside Hutsul music. A couple of years ago some Hungarian film makers started working with them on a documentary, and this week the end result saw its premier at the Urania Film Museum in Budapest: The Last Kolomeyke. The filmakers followed the band around in Budapest as well as in their home village of Tjaciv, focusing on the friendships that grew between Imre Keszthelyi - their local host and manager - Sue Foy (our own amcsi friend and dance ethnographer of central European dance styles) and me - I recorded a few cuts with Técső for our forthcoming new CD, and the studio session is included in the film. As is usual with these projects, the documenting went on and on and on... but then in 2006 the tsymbaly player, Misha Csernovec, suddenly passed away.

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Music of the Boykos, Lemkos and Hutsuls

  

Karpathia

Ukrainian ethnic music

2003
    
Tracks:

1 Introduction ( instrumental,bag pipe)

BOYKO REGION

2 We brought in the harvest early (harvest song)
3 There are fine herbs on the table (wedding song)
4 Oh, it snowed in the mountains (rhyming song)
5 Oh, in the middle of the village lived a poor widow (winter song)
6 Oh, long, long ago (winter song)
7 When i was young (rhyming song - "kolomyika")
8 Instrumental "kolomyika"
9 Instrumental "Kozak"
10 Instrumental "Polka"
11 Instrumental "kolomyika"
12 Instrumental "kolomyika"

LEMKO REGION

13 I'll give a calf (folk song)
14 Oh, play musicians play (folk song)
15 I'm from 1923... (story)
16 At our neighbor's house (wedding song)
17 Behind our hut (wedding song)
18 We're coming down the mountain (wedding song)
19 In the old days it wasn't like it is now (story) 20 Green kindling (folk song)
21 I'm a young man ( folk song)
22 We didn't come (wedding song)
23 Where the sun rose (folk song)
24 From Krakow they took me as a soldier (soldier's song)
25 I sowed green seeds (folk song)

HUTSUL REGION

26 Fiddle instrumental with rhyming song
27 Jaw harp
28 Where are we going to spend the night (folk song)
29 Floyera and story about the performance (funerary lament)
30 Double flute and story about the performance
31 The biggest honor... (story)
32 On Sunday morning

Total time : 73:54

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KARPATHIA is a CD of Ukrainian traditional music of the Boykos, Lemkos and Hutsuls, who live in the Carpathian Mountains of Western Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk region). Instead of presenting the popular or typical genres for each group, this CD features the new and unexpected in this music which was born in the mountains and created by people who live a little closer to heaven.

 

recorded by Yaryna Turianska.
  

   

This CD is a valuable piece of Maramorisian folklore. The instrumental pieces included here compile some of the best recordings of north-carpathian music. I am a listener of traditional romanian music, of Taraf des Haidouks, and others. This musics seems to me as romanian as the Taraf de Haidouks. The melodic lines are so Romanian, more Romanian than the Romanian traditional music from regions like Moldavia and Transylvania. I would say that in the hole estern-european regions, two areas are the most Romanian, Valachia and Hutsulshkina. I think that from these two areas the Romanian people spread throughout its ethnic teritorry of today. I heared of different documents, like the place in Nestor's Chronic, where it is said that before the hungarian conquest, the Romanians occupied the contry of the Ruthenians, of the conties of the "bolohoveni'' or ''brodnici'' that were romanian feudal states in Gallitia, and of the numerous villages runed by ''iux vallahicum'', that were romanian still in the 16th century. I herded that Maramures was in 80% of its population romanian till the 16th century, when Ruthenians were colonised on the feudal estates of the romanian Cnezi, lords. Maiby this music is a testimony to the Romanian influence in what is today Transcarpatia and Ivano-Frankivsk, of those volosky shepherd people who gave the names of all the mountains in the region, and from whom Dragos and Bogdan settled the Moldavians in what is today the eastern region of Romania and the Republic of Moldavia.

  

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Karpathia is the ultimate ethnic adventure. The selections, all played on authentic folk instruments (pipes, tsymbaly, trembita) and sung by natives who do justice to the repertoire, transport me to the rough, beautiful mountains. I dance along to the happy and sly kolomyjka tunes, feel nostalgia listening to the wedding songs, the Christmas and New Year's greetings. The past lives through these recordings. I am also impressed by the research and thoroughness in the notes. Some of the words are purely regional and translations are needed. Certain local customs are also explained. There is a good description of the three groups, the Lemki, the Bojki and Hutsuly. I do think that it was a good idea to arrange the selections according to the region. I recommend for those who enjoy Karpathia to purchase the Kosmach Musicians CD. One reason for my loving this type of music, I should add, is that my father is from the Carpathian region and I always heard these types of tunes during my earliest years.

  

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 "Ukrainian Ethnic Music" series came out of many ethnographical expeditions to different region of Ukraine. Compact discs have stylish design. In the colourful booklets you will find information about the places where recordings were made, stories about performers, lyrics of the songs etc. Information is given in Ukrainian and English.
  

If you ever get hold of one or more of these CD's grab them all... :) 
  

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Ethnic Ukraine

Hutsul Melodies

2005

Tracks:

01. Myshyns'ka dribon'ka
02. Bukovina Folk Melodies (Bukovyns'ki narodni melodiji)
03. Garland Of Ukrainian Folk Melodies (Vinochok ukrajins'kyh narodnyh melodij)
04. Myshyns'ki Wedding Tunes (Myshyns'ki vesil'ni melodiji)
05. Tylynkovi nahravannja
06. Scherzo Polka (Zhartivlyva pol'ka)
07. Arkan
08. The Chaban's Dream (Son chabana)
09. The Hutsul Girl (Huculka)
10. Verhovyno, svitku ty nash
11. Oy, the Dulcimer Said (Oj, kazala cymbalochka)
12. The Lemkivs'k Theme Dream (Fantazija na lemkivs'ku temu)
13. Halyc'ka pol'ka
14. Bereznjanka
15. V’jazanka
16. Verhovynno
17. V’jazanka zakarpats'kyh tancjuval'nyh kolomyjok
18. Verkhovyna Melodies (Verhovyns'ki melodiji)

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 This compilation contains the archive records from National Radio Company of Ukraine catalogue. The traditional songs go along with the new ones. Amongst performers are – folk instruments orchestra, songs and dance ensemble, “Pysanka” duet. There are also the solo acts by bandura, dulcimer and sopilka players.

 

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It somehow resembles a photo album or even a colour book. Not because some kind of imperfection or amateurishness is present here, on the contrary - masterly performance itself deserves due appreciation. I mean quite a different thing - in colour books usual things as a rule acquire such unexpected and bright colours that you have nothing to do but to be amazed. The same with these melodies – they can’t leave you indifferent simply because they are strikingly beautiful, gentle, bright and incendiary. There is so much sun in them, as well as clear air, height and tints of green that you even forget that mountains may be and sometimes are not only friendly but also menacing. And when you remember that, you have the feeling of respect towards those people who have enough vital enthusiasm to create such music, to reproduce such cheerful and light energy in melodies. In order to understand and to feel all these words you should live in mountains at least for a short period of time. Still, if you do not have such possibility, then you should listen to this music.
  

 Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)

  

Hutsul music

  

Music has been an everyday Hutsul life friend for ages. It became a friend when Hutsul was born, and when he or she was dying. Hutsul are strongly connected to the music of their ancestors, who saved the rhythms from generation to generation. Walking along the villages in the mountains, there may be heard the voices and songs along the glades. The signals and melodies used by shepherds can be heard played on different pipes. There are no parties, weddings or Christmas without the music and Hutsul songs. Nowadays, it can be seen that traditional Hutsul songs and dances have been disappearing. Also the musical instruments have been replaced. There are not so many dudka, telenka, floyera, horns, while trydencitka and brebenytsia completely disappeared. The repertoire has been changed and it is mostly dedicated to popular, modern songs as an effect of civilization transformations. But there is a traditional current in music, too.
 

Hutsul Instruments

The best way to know Hutsul music and national instruments of the Carpathians is to visit Roman Kumlyk Hutsul Musical Instruments Museum in Verkhovyna.
Hutsul instruments are very important. According to their traditions, Hutsul emphasize that the instruments have their souls. The music played can be magical and fight with an evil or help to seduce the lover. With the music played on the traditional Hutsul instruments new born baby was welcomed, the wedding was announced, the animals(marzhyna) were moved to the glade, the death was made known.
The conventional Hutsul ensemble consisted of four basic instruments – the violins (skrypka), the drum (buben), cymbals and pipe (sopilka). In the ancient times, the Hutsul ensemble had two violins and bagpipes (dudka). From 18th century reports the 1st violins played the main theme, while 2nd violins or the musician voice complemented it. In early 20th century, Hutsul ensemble played with the violins (skrypka), cymbals and pipe (sopilka). After the World War it was extended by the drum (buben). Nowadays, the ensemble is extended by accordion (bayan). The older ensembles wase called as three players music (troyisti muzyky) since the beginning of 20th century. Hutsul called such ensembles muzyka with pronunciation stress on y, while normally it is stressed on “u”.
Every instrument plays a distinctive role in Hutsul music. The violins and pipes are the solo instruments, playing a main role in the theme, but the most important are violins. The pipe is made of hazel timber. It has six holes, and the voice is a combination of d, fis, a, h, c, d, e. The volume is received by the change of air pressure along the pipe with fingers opening and closing the holes.
Both pipe and violin can either work together or play a main role. The pipe has been used by Hutsul since early 20th century. Now it is the most popular instrument. Nearly, every Hutsul can play the pipe. In the past, it was used by the shepherds and children during work in the glades, and afterwards, in evenings (vechornytsi) during the spinning.
A smaller pipe is called denchivka. It has five holes and it used to be a teaching pipe for children.
The next one is called floyera. This pipe is longer than sopilka and similarly produced from hazel timber, which according to Hutsul gives a dean and pleasant tone of sound, floyera has a low continuous sound. Another simple pipe is called telenka. The sound modulation is dependent on changes of pressure of the air as well as the blow strength. This instrument was used, when one arm held a horse or a bag while the other played the pipe.
The violins (skrypka) always help in singing and ensemble playing. They need a strong technical improvement. In Hutsul land the violins are still very popular even among young people.
Cymbals are used in an ensemble playing as a complementary instrument with accords put in the holes after the drumming and making a rhythmical background. Cymbals have several bands of strings (K 15, 20, or 27) of the same sound. Every band has 4-8 strings. A hazel sticks are applied to play. Hutsul adapted cymbals from the Gypsies.
A drum (buben) is used for rhythm introduction with a small metal plate breaking the regular tone. The small drum was applied just before the World War and it was replaced by large one after the war.
A very popular is using of drymba. It is a popular Balkan instrument (drymblo) made of a scythe blade or a watch spring. It gives a monotonic metallic sound from the part mounted between two curvy plates. The instrument is place near the mouth and with the breath and a finger it starts sounding. In the past, drymba was used by women, nowadays also men use it.
A very seldom instrument called dudka (koza, dudochka, gaydy or dudy). It has been known since 18th century. It was used during the play of funeral or baptize party music (zastolna). It was played on the glades throughout the pasturage.
The instrument was used during the fairs, when the Hutsul musicians presented the dancing music (hutsulyk) or songs (melodiya).
This kind of show was presented even in the 1950-ties. Nowadays, it is presented only during the weddings or the funerals.
The instrument consists of the air bag (mich) made of the goat leather with three pipes made of sycamore – basok, sysak and karabka. Sysak is used for the air input to the bag. With a bag full of air, the player moves basok along the right hand. Parallely, the left arm presses the bag with playing on karabka. Karabka has two channels with two straw adjusters. Basok has a low sound, while karabka gives higher sounds.
A very intensive sound can be played with trembita. It was an instrument, which regulated the day on the glade. It can be used by men. Several trembita can be used in a team play also with horns. It is made of a spruce timber. It is a thin conical pipe widened from the back to the front. It has from 2.5 m to 3 m length. It is wrapped by the birch of bark with the metal top. The sound is modulated by the air pressure. Hutsul trembita is not so heavy and one person can hold it. It was believed that the best instruments can be made from the tree striked by the thunder with the fresh birch of bark wrapped so as to wave sound could be heard from the instrument.
The horns were used to indicate the danger. They were made from the same wood as trembita was. During the pasturage on the glade the voice of horn alarmed in case of wolf or bear attack, while during the Christmas time in the Carpathians it was used by the carol singers.
There are several rules of playing Hutsul music. The most important is to finish the melody. Otherwise, the musician will have to finish it in the other world.
 

Singing

The singing is a part of the Hutsul ritual folk. With several family ceremonies – weddings, baptisms, feasts – the music and the singing are a part of Hutsul life. Also traditional migrations from the valleys to the glades have been done with music and singing. Another traditional activity as spinning has been disappeared, and the women singing with sopilka pipes disappeared too. Nowadays, there are three forms of singing – a solo one with one instrument, – a group singing with one or more instruments, and a solo without the instruments.
A solo with an instrument singing is performed except for the ceremonies, on the glades, but it is diminishing. The songs with a short text or rhymes is called spivanky. It can be performed with the violins, pipes, bagpipes or drymba. Today, there are mostly the violins or drymba. The singer recites the text with certain theme, and the instrumentalist plays the melody with several seconds upper and lower meanders. It is a simple variation heterophony.
The same scheme is applied, when the group singing is performed. It is typical around the Christmas time, when the carol groups sing with a violins playing the theme and mostly a solo due to the group theme singing. The violinists use double hold, while in the past a triple hold was used at the end of a phrase.
A solo and a group singing without the instruments is very rare now. Women, collecting the mushrooms or berries perform a group singing. In the Christmas time, the carols are sung by group singers or family choirs. In the Easter the religious songs are performed by groups jest before the dinner.
Some songs are long with even ninety strophes. The melody is simple scaled, pentatonic, threetonic, with easy melo-rhytmic pattern. They have a second melody step and a quart as a tonic frame.
The songs are not so fast, rather slow with easy rhythm. The lyrics is not directly attached to the particular melody. The meaning of spivanky is mostly dedicated due to the lyrics, which can be singing with various melodies and vice versa, to the particular melody several different rhymes can be sung. Some studies demonstrated, that commonly the second situation happens today. The lyrics are often about the love, fun, weddings, drinking. There are some songs dedicated to the warlords such as Dovbush. The early sounds used in Hutsul land were the calling voices of shepherds (ehokanya). Even nowadays, walking across the mountains, it might be possible to hear some voice signals with syllables la-lo-lay or e-he he. There are as in the past with the same meaning – calling, demonstrating the presence, but also warning or bothering evil. One of the shepherds stressed the need of a call (zaehokanyo) in order to feel safer and scare the wild animals. The origin of the calling voices can be found in the past, where the reality was a space of the fighting forces of good and evil. The only way to get rid of the evil was to emphasize the presence with several noisy and loudly voices.
As far as Hutsul are concerned, they still believe in a mythical world of the phantoms. They can be found in Hutsul legends, stories and songs about Chornohora. They are mostly dedicated to Pip Ivan, not Hoverla. The songs about Hoverla have been composed since 1991, when Ukraine became independent. In the texts, patriotic and liberation are emphasized and Hoverla seems to be a new national symbol.
 

Hutsul Dances

The dances of Hutsul show the nation nature. The basic dance (tanets) is kolomyyka. The oldest are trisunka, vysoka, piutorak, and koleso or kolo. Hutsutka is a very popular and younger dance. Such dances as arkan and resheto are not in use but their melodies are popular and played by Hutsul ensembles and danced on the stage. Such dances as trisunka and piutorok were included into the kind of dance kotomyykovo-kozachkovy like hutsulka with their figures and steps.
In the past the dance was starting with a demand of a peasant, who asked for a especially chosen music. Then, he asked girl and they were a first pair on the floor. After that next pairs were joint the floor. Today, it is a custom, which is applied during the weddings.
There are four figures in Hutsul dances. Their combinations cover all the dances.
They are called tropata (tropatanka), hayduka, holubtsi and perekruchuvannya.
At present, the most popular dance is hutsulka, which is a fast dance around the pair with all four figures applied. There are kozachok and kolomyyka rhythms and a tempo is various in different parts of Hutsul land.

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