Ukraine

Ukrainian music is considered one of the most influential high-quality music in the world and its content covers diverse and multiple component elements of the music that is found in Western and Eastern musical civilization. It also has a very strong indigenous Slavic and Christian uniqueness whose elements were used among many neighboring nations. Ukraine is also the rarely acknowledged musical heartland of the former Russian Empire. Several of its ethnic groups living within Ukraine have their own unique musical traditions and some have developed specific musical traditions in association with the land in which they live. Ukraine found itself at the crossroads of Asia and Europe and this is reflected within the music in a perplexing mix of exotic melismatic singing with chordal harmony which does not always easily fit the rules of traditional Western European harmony. Rhythmically the music rarely uses complex time-signatures, but compound meters are encountered, and the music can be extremely complex harmonically.

Associated Cultural Styles Of Music: Vocal Music, Instrumental Folk Music, Vocal-Instrumental Folk Music, Kobzari, Ritual Instrumental Music, Pseudo-Folkloric Music, Traditional Music, Bandura, Classical Music, Pop Music

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Ukraine