User:Bulakhs/Dubravin Valentyn Volodymyrovych

Valentyn Volodymyrovych Dubravin (May 9, 1933, Kyiv - December 7, 1995, Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, buried in Kyiv) - folklorist, ethnomusicologist, teacher, composer. Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.

Biography
He grew up in an orphanage, where he chose the surname Dubravin for himself - by analogy with the surname of the announcer, whose voice he liked.

During the war, as a boy, he was a partisan in Vinnytsia, blew up on a mine and almost lost sight.

After the war, having musical and singing abilities, he received special education and devoted his whole life to music.

1960–1978 — teacher of theoretical subjects at the Sumy Music School.

1961 — graduated from the History and Theory faculty of the Kyiv Conservatory, where, under the influence of such well-known founders of Ukrainian musicology as Shreier-Tkachenko Onysiia Yakivna, Stolova Yevheniia Moiseivna, the field of future activity was determined: ethnomusicologist and cultural historian.

1964-1967 — studied at the postgraduate course of the Leningrad Conservatory (now the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory) under Feodosii Rubtsov's guidance.

1972 — defended his PhD thesis in art history.

1978–1983 — Head of the Department of Theory and History of Music and Playing Musical Instruments at the Sumy Pedagogical Institute (now A. S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University).

Since 1983, he has been working at Nizhyn Gogol State University.

Since 1990, he has been a professor in the Theory, History of music and Playing musical instruments department.

Musical-ethnographic activity
Valentyn Dubravin's cultural-historical and ethnographic interests were formed under the revival of ethnographic research in the 1960s and 1970s, which became a qualitatively new stage in developing folkloristics.

At this time, the scientific and creative contacts of the scientist with the editors of the magazine Vpered began, where he selected the lyrics of songs, edited them and transcribed them in Braille. Using the Braille system, V. Dubravin wrote the lyrics of songs that became accessible for blind people to read.

The beginning of scientific work
His expeditionary and scientific work began with the House of Folk Art in the city of Sumy. Here, amateurs from all over the region came to get advice on collecting folklore and listen to lectures on theory and composition given by Valentyn Dubravin. The result of the research work was several scientific publications, as well as a sheet music collection of Sumy region songs with comments and an introductory article, in which the author analyzes the genre composition of the folklore of the region, defines the boundaries of musical dialects, pointing out their characteristic features.

Folk song creativity of Chernihiv Oblast
In 1983, the scientist began to study the folk song creativity of the Chernihiv oblast: for several years, he studied the songs of Bakhmach, Borzna, Varva, Kozelets, Koriukivka, Nizhyn, Snovsk and other regions of the oblast. Based on the collected material, V. Dubravin compiled a collection, which included the best samples of folk songs selected by the compiler taking into account the local and stylistic features of the folklore of the Chernihiv region.

About the creativity of Ukrainian kobzars
Dubravin's separate expeditions are devoted to the work of such Ukrainian kobzars: Yevhen Adamtsevych, Kovshar Oleksandr (recorded his repertoire in 1994), Movchan Yehor.

Creative work
The collection includes more than 28,000 folklore samples; 2369 chants were notated; collections issued:


 * «Pisni odniiei rodyny» (1988),


 * «Pisni Sumshchyny»(1989; both — Kyiv),


 * «Narodni pisni Chernihivshchyny v zapysu Valentyna Dubravina» (2001), «Pisni odnoho sela» (2002),
 * «Pisni Shevchenkivskoho kraiu» (2005; both — Nizhyn),
 * «Obriadovi pisni Slobozhanshchyny i Sumskyi rehion» (2005),
 * collections remained in manuscripts «Pisni Poltavshchyny», «Khrestynivski pisni Cherkaskoi oblasti».

Compiler of the textbook «Ukrainskyi muzychnyi folklor» (3 v., Nizhyn, 1994—1996).