Ukrainian folk songs

Various peoples have different traditions and beliefs as to the origin of the folk songs. The ancient Greeks thought that songs were composed by the gods themselves, and all the...

Throughout the vast Ukrainian territory--irrespective of various forceful political allegiances, foreign influence and domination in the past--the same motives, airs, wording an...

Quite many among the songs treat about the Ukrainian Cossack life, their love affairs, heroic deeds, courage and raids on Russians, Poles, Tartars and Turks. There are songs abo...

(a) Most of these songs are from the obscure pre-Christian era--expressing the adoration of natural forces, especially of the celestial bodies. Svaroh was the god of heaven and...

With the introduction of obligatory Christianity by Vladimir the Great, the grand duke and ruler of Ukraine and other territories which later developed into the white Ruthenian...

After the Union of Lithuania with Poland, whereby Ukraine was also forced to join the latter, the Ukrainian and Lithuanian nobility became gradually Polonized as a consequence o...

Once more, after the Union with Russia at Pereyaslav, the whole nation arose against the Moscovites under the leadership of Hetman Mazepa, who made a covenant with Charles XII,...

(a) _The Chumak[1] songs._ Chumaks or merchants were well organized in groups and eagerly protected by the Ukrainian forces before attacks of nomadic tribes, as ones who were in...

(a) The oldest songs and ones that give a good insight into home life are the _Ritual Songs_, and especially the _Wedding Songs_. In these we see traces of the so-called Matriar...

The Ukrainians have many of the common songs whose themes are proper to all the rest of the world’s peoples--_songs that are the common treasury of mankind_; such as songs of th...

Most of the Ukrainian folk songs are, as a rule, of ancient date. The Serbs are the nearest to the Ukrainians of all Slavs with the quantity, contents and quality of their folk...