IV. MUSICAL EXAMPLES: BAROQUE & CLASSICAL ERAS; TORBAN TUNING & REPERTOIRE. Last update: April 16, 2009   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

72.***

METELYTSJA (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

71.***

ARIETTA VARIATA "OJ U GHAJU PRY DUNAJU" (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

70.***

MISJAC NA NEBI (g)-[PDF], [MP3]

69.***

ARIETTA VARIATA "OJ NE XODY GHRYTSJU - II " (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

68.***

ARIETTA VARIATA "OJ NE XODY GHRYTSJU" (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

67.***

ARIETTA VARIATA "OJ NE XODY GHRYTSJU" (c - archlute version)-[PDF]

 

66.***

MAZURKA (a)-[PDF], [MP3]

65.***

MAZURKA (g)-[PDF], [MP3]

65.***

BALLO RUTENO (a)-[PDF], [MP3]

64.***

PLYVE KACHA (a)-[PDF], [MP3]

63.***

ARIETTA: U SUSIDA XATA BILA (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

62.***

ARIETTA: BULA SOBI MARUSJA (d- Edinburgh version)-[PDF], [MP3]

61.***

ARIETTA: BULA SOBI MARUSJA (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

60.***

ARIETTA: XODYT' GHARBUZ PO GHORODU (d)-[PDF], [MP3]

 

57-59.***

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

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

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

56.***

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

55.***

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

54.***

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

53.***

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

52.***

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

50-51.***

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

O VOZLJUBLENNYJ SYNE (a)-[PDF],

48-49.***

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

47.*** (Also see #37)

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

46.***

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

45.***

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

44.***

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

43.***

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

42.***

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

41.***

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

40.***

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

39.***

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

38.***

VERSHE MIJ (d)-[PDF],

37.***

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

36.***

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

 

35.***

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

 

34.***

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

33.***

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

32.***

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

31.***

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

30.***

IDE GHOMIN (d)-[PDF],

29.***

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

27-28.***

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

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

26.***

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

25.***

KOLYSKOVA (a)-[PDF],

24.***

PASLA HALJA PAWY (C)-[PDF],

23.***

BURLAKY (a)-[PDF],

22.***

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

21.***

NICH' TAKA JASNAJA-[PDF],

20.***

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

19.***

ZAKUVALA TA SYVA ZOZULJA-[PDF]

18.***

OJ CHOGHOZH TY ZAZHURYVSJA-[PDF]

17.***

KOLYSKOVA-I-[PDF],

16.***

KOZAKY-[PDF],

15.***

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

14-15.***

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

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

12-13.***

BIDA (a) [PDF], [MP3]

BIDA (g) [PDF], [MP3]

7-10.***

DIVCHINO I (d), [PDF],

DIVCHYNO II (d) [PDF], [MP3]

DIVCHYNO III (g) [PDF],

DIVCHYNO IV (d) [PDF], [MP3]

6.***

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

5.***

ROMANCE- (d) [PDF],

4.***

DOLJA (d)-[PDF],

3.***

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

2.***

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

1.***

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