Mykola Petrovych Budnyk ( uk, Мико́ла Петро́вич Будник) was a luthier and traditional performer in the

Kobzar A ''kobzar'' ( ua, кобзар, pl. kobzari ua, кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed bandura or kobza. Tradition Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so by ...

tradition. He was active in authentic construction and recreation of historic folk instruments, and involved in the movement for authentic performаnce practice on Ukrainian folk instruments. Budnyk was also known as a painter and poet. He was born in 1954 in Skolobiv, near Khoroshiv, Zhytomyr region, and died January 16, 2001, in Irpin',

Kyiv region Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but ...

. He was chairman of the Kyiv Kobzar Guild (

Kobzarskyi Tsekh Kobzarskyi Tsekh (, ''Kobzars'kyi Tsekh''), literally "Kobzar guild", is an organization of kobzars, which have existed since the 17th century in Ukraine. In Ukraine, blind travelling musicians, known as kobzars or lirnyks, organized themselves i ...

bandura A bandura ( uk, банду́ра) is a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 strings ...

, known as a master player of folk musical instruments, and as an artist and poet.

Creative legacy

Budnyk recreated 17 types of traditional folk instruments - among them different regional types of the

kobza The kobza ( uk , кобза), also called bandurka ( uk , бандурка) is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family ( Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term ''kobz ...

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, husli,

hudok The gudok (, russian: гудок), gudochek (, russian: гудочек) is an ancient Eastern Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow.

torban The torban ( ua, Торбан, also ''teorban'' or ''Ukrainian theorbo'') is a Ukrainian musical instrument that combines the features of the Baroque lute with those of the psaltery. The Тorban differs from the more common European bass lute kno ...

, husli,

hudok The gudok (, russian: гудок), gudochek (, russian: гудочек) is an ancient Eastern Slavic string musical instrument, played with a bow.

and other traditional Ukrainian musical instruments. Together Budnyk formally resurrected the

(Kobzar Guild), uniting like-minded intellectuals interested in the study and revival of authentic traditional music of the kobzars. Budnyk initially studied traditional kobzar performance from Heorhy Tkachenko from 1978, and initially made himself a traditional bandura. He had a natural aptitude to authentic instrument construction and made banduras for many of Tkachenko's students. He later made a number of other authentic Ukrainian folk instruments and also began to teach others how to make and play these instruments in an authentic manner. The Kobzar guild he co-created revived traditional performance practices such as street-performance (busking) ( uk, кобзарювання). Much of the repertoire, such as the para-religious psalms and kants, which were previously suppressed in Soviet times as well as the epic form known as dumy were also reintroduced.And that is very important. Budnyk authored a textbook on making old-type

s ( uk, старосвітська бандура).Mishalov, Mykola V. Budnyk - posthumous mention / / Bandura, 2001, Part 75 After his death, his recordings were collected and released in the CDa ''Mykola Budnyk''. ''Hej, na Chornomu mori... '' ''Project "My Ukraine. Bervy"''. ''(Hey, at the black sea)'', by Art-Veles

Teachers

1980 - began to learn to play the bandura and the traditional kobza legacy with

Heorhy Tkachenko Heorhiy Kyrylovych Tkachenko ( uk, Георгій Кирилович Ткаченко; 5 May 1898 in Hlushkovo, Kursk region of the Russian Empire – 1993 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian bard and bandurist. Biography Tkachenko was able to com ...

with a small group of contemporaries: Volodymyr Kushpet, Victor Mishalow, Mykola Tovkaylo and others. He began producing old-type

and

using traditional technology and methods. After Tkachenko's death he took the leadership position of this movement.

Students

Budnyk had many students of the bandura and

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a vio ...

, including the well-known film producer Oles Sanin, Oleksandr Kit as well as performers Taras Kompanichenko, Taras Sylenko, Ruslan Kozlenko, Pavlo Zubchenko, and Ivan Kushnir. File:KobzaOfVeresai.jpg, Veresai Bandura often referred to as a kobza - a Ukrainian Lute-like instrument, described by Mykola Lysenko from Ostap Veresay - Ukrainian blind epic singer approx. in 1871 File:KobzaVer.jpg, Kobza made by Ruslan Kozlenko (2005, Kyiv, Ukraine) one of students of M. Budnyk

References

External links

Kyiv Kobzarskyi Tsekh Website
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Creative legacy

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