Symbolic Corpus of Ukrainian Folk Songs
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This website contains a corpus of 1802 symbolically encoded Ukrainian folk songs in musicXML format with lyrics and metadata. The songs originate from the Podillia, an ethnographic region, is situated in the central-western part of Ukraine. In particular, this corpus includes songs from the central part of Podillia - Vinnytsia oblast, and western part - Khmelnytsky oblast. The corpus consists of three parts: ritual songs, non-ritual songs and children's songs, and was collected through separate efforts of ~85 folklorists, ethnomusicologists and ethnomusicological expeditions (1954, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1976) between the years 1914 and 2018.

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   * - Сycle of songs
     - Number of songs
   * - Calendar-Ritual songs
     - 692
   * - Family-Ritual songs
     - 214
   * - Non-ritual songs
     - 847
   * - Children’s songs
     - 45

Download the full corpus from `here <https://github.com/aljanaki/Symbolic_Corpus_Of_Ukrainian_Folk_Music/blob/main/full%20corpus.zip>`_ (5.6 Mb)

To reference the corpus, cite: 

*Inna Lisniak, Anna Aljanaki, and Liudmyla Efremova. (2025) A corpus of Ukrainian folk songs from Podillia. The Proceedings of the 9th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference*

* Check out the :doc:`metadata` section for information on how the metadata is organized.
* Section :doc:`musicxml` contains information on symbolic music
* Section :doc:`lyrics` contains song texts in .txt format (Unicode-encoded).


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Contents
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.. toctree::
   :caption: Symbolic music
   :maxdepth: 2
   
   musicxml/musicxml

.. toctree::
   :caption: Song texts
   :maxdepth: 2
   
   lyrics/lyrics

.. toctree::
   :caption: Metadata
   :maxdepth: 2

   metadata/metadata
   metadata/abbreviations
   metadata/abbreviations_UA
   metadata/map