- Source: Lirnyk
The lirnyks (Ukrainian: лірник; plural: лірники – lirnyky) were itinerant Ukrainian musicians who performed religious, historical and epic songs to the accompaniment of a lira, the Ukrainian version of the hurdy-gurdy.
Lirnyks were similar to and belonged to the same guilds (tsekhs) as the better known bandura and kobza players known as kobzars. However, the lirnyk played the lira, a kind of crank-driven hurdy-gurdy, while the kobzars played the lute-like banduras or kobzas. Lirnyks were usually blind or had some major disability.
They were active in all areas of Ukraine from (at least) the 17th century on. Though the tradition was violently ended in Eastern/Central Ukraine in the mid-1930s, some lirnyks were seen in the regions of Western Ukraine until the 1970s and even the 1980s.
Today, the repertoire of the instrument is mostly performed by educated, sighted performers. Notable performers of the lira include Mykhailo Khai, Vadym "Yarema" Shevchuk, Volodymyr Kushpet and Andrii Liashuk.
See also
Kobzar
Persecuted kobzars and bandurists
Dziady (wandering beggars)
Kobzarstvo
Bandurist
Blind musicians
References
Sources
Humeniuk, A. - Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumenty - Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1967
Mizynec, V. - Ukrainian Folk Instruments - Melbourne: Bayda books, 1984
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Taras Kompanichenko
- Lira (disambiguasi)
- Lirnyk
- List of entertainer occupations
- Kobzar
- Ukrainians
- Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ukraine
- Bard
- Taras Kompanichenko
- Trouvère
- Skald
- Vasyl Hovika
