Photo taken by M, Kuzma. This is a view from an attic window of the house where her father grew up in Western Ukraine.
Editions of Ukrainian Choral Music
The scores listed below are available for purchase as pdf files. Each score provides the text in transliteration along with translation into English and biographical information about the composer. Pronunciation audio files of each piece are available as well.
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Professor Kuzma is sharing this music so that choirs and audiences around the world can enjoy this little-known music and also to counteract the Russian government’s current campaign of cultural genocide: Ukrainian conservatories, theaters, universities, museums, and libraries have been targeted since the first days of the war. (See New York Times article here). #StandWithUkraine.
Kyiv at dawn. Public domain photo of the Monastery of the Caves,
Sacred Music
(SATB unless otherwise noted)
Anonymous chant. “S namy Boh” TTB
Anonymous chant. “O Tebi raduyetsia” Solo chant
Anonymous kant. “Nas dilia raspiatoho” SSA
Berezovsky, Maxim (1745–77) “Priidite, poklonimsia”
Bortniansky, Dmytro (1751–1825). “Cherubic Hymn No. 7”
Bortniansky, Dmytro. 35 Choral Concertos Carus Bortniansky edition
Dychko, Lesia (b. 1939). “Slava Otsiu I Synu” SAATB
Koshets, Oleksander (1875–1944). “O Tebi raduyetsia”
Kotko, Dmytro (1892-1982). “Cherez pole shyrokeye”
SATB with tenor or soprano solo
Lysenko, Mykola (1842–1912). “Molytva za Ukrainu”
Turchaninov, Petro (1779-1856). “Z namy Boh”
Photo taken by Marika Kuzma. Fields of Ukraine.
Secular Music
(SATB unless otherwise noted)
Charnetsky, Stepan. “Oy u luzi chervona kalyna” SAB
(Deychakivsky arrangement)
Havrylets, Hanna (1958–2022). “Tsvite teren” SATB
Kotko, Dmytro (1892-1982). “Cherez pole shyrokeye”
SATB with tenor or soprano solo
Kryzhanivsky, Danylo. “Reve ta stohne Dnipr Shyroky» SATB
(Hryhory Kytasky arrangement with piano/bandura accompaniment)
Lysenko, Mykola. “Molytva za Ukrainu” SATB
Ptychka nevelychka. Folksong trio. SSA
(Kuzma arrangement transcribed from Kralytsia and Kurbasy ensemble videos).
Shamo, Ihor. “Kyeve miy” (1925–82). SSAATTBB
(Arr. Kuzma based on an arr by Kreshchatyk Choir)
Stetsenko, Kyrylo (1882–1922). “Zhuravli” SATB
(also known as “Chuyesh brate miy”)
”Verkhovyno, svitku ty nash”. Folksong with origins in a Polish mid 19C play
TTBB, SSAA, SATB. Arr by Kuzma/Lysenko.
Christmas/New Years (folk carol arr.)
Alzhniev, Yuriy (b. 1949). “Shchedrivka”
Barvinsky, Vasyl (1888–1963). “Shcho to za predyvo.”
Koshets, Oleksander (1875–1944). “Boh predvichny”
Kozytsky, Pylyp (1893–1960). “Oy koliada, koliadnytsia.”
Kyshakevych, Yosyp (1872–1953). “Spy Isuse, spy.”
(M. Kuzma arrangement)
Leontovych, Mykola (1877–1921). “Shchedryk”
Stetsenko, Kyrylo (1882–1922). Arrangements of folk carols
“Dnes’ poyushche”
“Dobriy vechir tobi”
“Nebo i zemlia”
“Nova radist stala”
“Oy dyvneye narozhdennia”
“Po fsiomu svitu”
Yakovchuk, Oleksandr (b. 1952) “Shchedrivka”
Yakymets, Volodymyr (b. 1974).
“Presviataya Diva Syna porodyla.”
Yatsynevych, Yakiv (1869–1945). “Yerusalymski dzvony”