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CHAPTER I :: UKRAINE IN THE 18th CENTURY: General outlook
These are the individuals that graciously helped with this project, originally started in 1988: Tim Crawford, Rob MacKillop, Volodymyr Vojt, Alexander Batov, Valery Sauvage. Arto Wikla, Ed Durbrow, Eduard Drach, Mathias Rösel, Victor Mishalow, Nestor Torbanyst, Bernd Haegemann, Marcin Ludwicki, Michal Wycislik, Greet Schamp, Yuri Fedynsky, Jerzy Zak, Matanya Ophee, Alisja Knast, Aleksandr Tolokno, Andriy Bondarenko, Franco Fois, Davide Rebuffa, Andrij Hornjatkevyç, Petro Galas, Patryk Miernikiewicz, Julian Kytasty, Hans Kockelmans, Andrij Legkyj, Michael Andrec, Oleg Timofeyev, Stuart Walsh, Elio Donatelli, Jean-Marie Poirier, Michal Mlynarz, John-Paul Himka, Anatoly Shpakov et alia.
A disclaimer note: This document raises some questions, but does not purport to answer them. This is not a musicological article, it is an essay based on its writer's historical sense and his sense of musical and visual aesthetics. It does not provide bibliography to the degree customary in mucicology, unless it is called for by some specific and IMPORTANT issue, and a number of details and nuance found in these pages are based on educated and perspicacious conjecture. This document is intended primarily for lutenists who might wish to acquaint themselves with Ukrainian music and culture in the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Biedermeier Eras, and bandurists, who might wish to gain some understanding of Ukrainian tradition of domestic music-making without commercialism and with some modicum of authenticity. Hopefully it would also hold sufficient interest for lay public as well, and we certainly hope that the MP3 files we provide as musical illustrations would by enjoyed universally.
The images, music and texts in this document are published under GFDL licence. All dissemination thereof (and contributions thereto) are welcome.
