IV. MUSICAL EXAMPLES: BAROQUE & CLASSICAL ERAS; TORBAN TUNING & REPERTOIRE. Last update: April 21, 2006   Are these pages useful to you?   Make a donation!

CHAPTER I :: UKRAINE IN THE 18th CENTURY: General outlook CHAPTER II :: UKRAINIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Historical context CHAPTER III-a :: TORBAN: Its origins and predecessors CHAPTER III-b :: TORBAN: Illustrated Overview of Surviving Instruments CHAPTER IV-a :: UKRAINIAN MUSIC: Renaissance Era, Lute CHAPTER IV-b :: Baroque & Classical Eras CHAPTER IV-c :: Baroque Lute & Torban CHAPTER V :: PERSONALITIES: Known players and literary citations ICONOGRAPHY :: REGIONAL: Lutes in Early Eastern Europe GUESTBOOK :: COMMENTS FORUM :: DISCUSSIONS CONTACT :: QUESTIONS

Some examples of how torban music may have sounded: Ukrainian songs with Torban/Baroque Lute accompaniment, and instrumental solos in BAROQUE LUTE TABULATURE by Roman Turovsky-Sautscheck intabulated after a visit in Ruthenia. All melodies are traditional, unless noted otherwise

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UKRAINIAN SONGS WITH TORBAN/BAROQUE-LUTE ACCOMPANIMENT are located HERE.

TORBAN/LUTE SOLOS

53-54-55.***

KOZACHOK (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

KOZACHOK (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

KOZACHOK (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

52.***

LIED OHNE WORTE V (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

51.***

LIED OHNE WORTE IV (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

50.***

LIED OHNE WORTE III (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3] , [MP3]

49.***

LIED OHNE WORTE II (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3], [MP3]

48.***

DUMKA (d)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

47b.***

O VOZLJUBLENNYJ SYNE (a- ornamented version)-[PDF], [MIDI]

47a.***

O VOZLJUBLENNYJ SYNE (a)-[PDF], [MIDI]

46a-46b.***

OJ U POLI (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3] (Archlute version [PDF])

45.*** (Also see #37)

DUMA PRO SAVCHUKA II (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

44.***

A TOMBEAU on the death of Grygory Skovoroda: TOMBEAU-PDF TOMBEAU-MIDI TOMBEAU-OGG

43.***

PODOLJANOCHKA II (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [OGG]

42.***

PODOLJANOCHKA I (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [OGG]

41.***

STOIT' JAVIR NAD VODOJU (a)-[PDF], [MIDI] (Air with two Doubles)

40.***

NALYVAJMO, BRATTJA, KRYSHTALEVI CHASHI (g)-[PDF], [MIDI]

39.***

PYTAET'SJA VITER V SMERTI (a)-[PDF], [MIDI]

38.***

HTO GHORJA NE ZNAE, HAJ MENE SPYTAE (a)-[PDF], [MP3] -LIVE, by Christopher Wilke

37.***

CHORNII BROVY (a)-[PDF], [MP3]-LIVE, by Jason Yoshida

36.***

VERSHE MIJ (d)-[PDF], [MIDI]

35.***

KLEINRUSSISCHE LIED OHNE WORTE (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

34.***

KRACHE, KRACHE (g)-[PDF], [MP3] -LIVE, by Christopher Wilke

33.***

JAROM, JAROM (g)-[PDF], [MP3]-LIVE, by Roman Turovsky,

 

32.***

JAROM, JAROM (a)-[PDF], [MP3],   [MP3]-LIVE, by Christopher Wilke

31.***

PRALJA (g)-[PDF], -[MIDI], [MP3]- LIVE, by Jason Yoshida

30.***

STOIT' JAVIR I (a)-[PDF], [MIDI]

29.***

STOIT' JAVIR II (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], a different melody to the same text

28.***

IDE GHOMIN (d)-[PDF], [MIDI]

27.***

BULO V KYIVI (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3], [MP3]-LIVE, by Roman Turovsky

26.***

DIVCHYNIO-NEBOGHO II (a)-[PDF], [MIDI]

25.***

DIVCHYNO-NEBOGHO I (g)-[PDF], [MIDI]

24.***

VITRY-VIJUT' (d)-[PDF], [MIDI]

23.***

KOLYSKOVA (a)-[PDF], [MIDI]

22.***

PASLA HALJA PAWY (C)-[PDF], [MIDI]

21.***

BURLAKY (a)-[PDF], [MIDI]

20.***

PODOROZH (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3] -LIVE, by Stuart Walsh

19.***

NICH' TAKA JASNAJA-[PDF], [MIDI]

18.***

NICH' TAKA JASNAJA (EARLIER VERSION)-[PDF], [MIDI]

17.***

ZAKUVALA TA SYVA ZOZULJA-[PDF], [MIDI]

16.***

OJ CHOGHOZH TY ZAZHURYVSJA-[PDF], [MIDI]

15.***

KOLYSKOVA-I-[PDF], [MIDI]

14.***

KOZAKY-[PDF], [MIDI]

13.***

VZJYAV BY JA TORBANA-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

12.***

POJU-KONJA (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

11.***

POJU-KONJA (a)-[PDF], [MIDI], [MP3]

10.***

BIDA (g) [PDF], [MIDI]

9.***

DIVCHINO I (d), [PDF], [MIDI]

8.***

DIVCHYNO II (d) [PDF], [MIDI]

7.***

DIVCHYNO III (g) [PDF], [MIDI]

6.***

CHOGHO ZH VODA KALAMUTNA (g)-[PDF], [MP3]

5.***

ROMANCE- (d) [PDF], [MIDI]

4.***

DOLJA (d)-[PDF], [MIDI]

3.***

MISJAC NA NEBI (g)-[PDF], [MIDI], [VIDEO], by Stewart Walsh

2.***

TRY KRYNYCHEN'KY (g)-[PDF], [MP3] -LIVE, by Jason Yoshida

1.***

ZHYDIVOCHKA NA SELI (g)-[PDF] (Prysvjachuetsja druzhini...) -[MIDI], [MP3]

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The torban has approximately 30 strings made of gut [6-8 of them stoppable on the fingerboard, and these often were double], although instruments having up to 60 strings are reported to have existed [the doubling of stoppable and bass strings makes this realistic].The Humenyuk book on the Ukrainian folk instruments (1930) reprint a rather peculiar tuning system first given by Lysenko in 1892:Trebles/Prystrunky: 12 or 13 single strings from f up to c/d in the f-major scale.Main strings/Vtory: 4 single fingerboard frettable strings, bottom to top: c, f, a, c.Basses on the fingerboard, octave strung, bottom to top: c, d, f, Bb,Basses off the fingerboard, octave strung, bottom to top: f, a, Bb, REPEATED TWICE, logic unclear, possibly an error and octave stinging was intended.

Low single basses/Bayorky, bottom to top, in THIS particular order: d, c, f, Eb.

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