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Sopilka (, uk, Cопiлка) is a name applied to a variety of
woodwind instrument
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s of the
flute family used by
Ukrainian
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* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
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folk instrumentalists. ''Sopilka'' most commonly refers to a
fife made of a variety of materials (but traditionally out of wood) and has six to ten finger holes. The term is also used to describe a related set of folk instruments similar to
recorder
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, incorporating a
fipple
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and having a constricted end.
Sopilkas are used by a variety of Ukrainian
folkloric
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ensembles recreating the traditional music of the various sub-ethnicities in western Ukraine, most notably that of the
Hutsuls
The Hutsuls (sometimes the spelling variant: Gutsuls; uk, Гуцули, translit=Hutsuly; pl, Huculi, Hucułowie; ro, huțuli) are an ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania (i.e. parts of Bukovina and Maramureș). They ...
of the
Carpathian Mountains. Often employing several sopilkas in concert, a skilled performer can mimic a variety of sounds found in nature, including bird-calls and insects.
Modern usage
With the development of the 10 hole fingering instruments sopilkas became part of the music education system in Ukraine. Pop groups began to use the instrument in their performances. The first was the folk-rock group
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 ''kob ...
. More recently, the sopilka has found its way into the music of
Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko ( uk, Руслана Степанівна Лижичко, ''Ruslana Lyzhychko''; born 24 May 1973), known mononymously as Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holdi ...
,
Haydamaky, the
Kubasonics and other contemporary bands like
Go_A
Go_A ( uk, Ґоу_Ей) is a Ukrainian electro-folk band first formed in 2012 who were set to represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the song " Solovey". Following the cancellation of the 2020 co ...
or
Kalush which explore Ukrainian themes.
See also
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Ukrainian folk music
Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.
In the 20th century numerous ethnographic and folkloric musical ensembles were ...
References
Ukrainian Folk Wind InstrumentsSamples and Pictures of Ukrainian InstrumentsSopilka: Ukrainian Chromatic RecorderSopilka/h1>Sources
*Dverij, R. -
Shkola hry na khromatychnii sopiltsi' - Lviv, 2008. - Part 1 - 72 pages, part 2 - 68 pages, part 3 - 64 pages.
*Humeniuk, A. - ''Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty'' - Kyiv:
Naukova dumka
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It was established by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1922, largely owing to the efforts of Ahatanhel Krymsky ...
, 1967
*Lander, N.S. -
Sopilka, Ukrainian Chromatic Recorder' - Hobart, 2022.
*Mizynec, V. - ''Ukrainian Folk Instruments'' - Melbourne: Bayda books, 1984
*Cherkaskyi, L. - ''Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty'' - Tekhnika, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2003 - 262 pages.
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End-blown flutes
Ukrainian musical instruments