Book Singing Kobzar. Works a cappella. Volume 2
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The seven-volume collection of choruses to Taras Shevchenko's poetry includes 283 works by 155 composers and arrangers and 12 folk songs. The vast majority of them have hitherto remained little known even to performers and admirers of Ukrainian choral singing and Shevchenko's sung poetry. This is the first time that such a large number of choral works based on the poetry of the national genius have been systematically published. The Kobzar songbook is unique in that it systematically collects almost all choral music to the poetry of the great Ukrainian singer from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Taras Shevchenko is perhaps the only poet in the world whose entire poetic heritage lives on in singing. Based on the Kobzar, which contains 237 poetic works, more than 300 original choral works have been composed and about 100 folk songs have been recorded. In total, more than 3,000 composers have written interpretations of Shevchenko's poetry in various forms and genres: from solos to choruses, cantatas, symphonies, operas, oratorios, and ballets. This is an unsurpassed poetic and musical phenomenon in world culture.
All the pieces of the sheet music collection Song Kobzar are divided into three groups:
a cappella pieces - volumes 1, 2, 3;
pieces with instrumental accompaniment - volumes 4, 5. 4, 5 volumes;
Pieces in large form with symphony orchestra -6, 7 volumes.
Each volume contains a comprehensive reference appendix: biographies of the composers, a bibliography of music notation and musicology publications, a discography, and an alphabetical index of the works.
The defining feature of the seven-volume collection of Choral Shevchenkiana is is its practical value for modern music pedagogy in higher and secondary music education institutions, specialised music schools, for concert and performance activities of choirs and for enriching library collections. The songbook "Kobzar" promotes music and choral education, deepening interest in Shevchenko's poetic heritage and Ukrainian choral music and their popularisation in Ukraine and the world.
This collection of Choral Shevchenkiana was compiled by Pavlo Ivanovych Muravsky (1914-2014), a great Ukrainian choral conductor and teacher of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, People's Artist of Ukraine, Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of Ukraine (1979), Hero of Ukraine (2009)
The publication is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko and the 100th anniversary of Pavlo Muravsky.