Modern academic folk instrument orchestras include both folk musical instruments and symphony orchestra instruments. The set of instruments depends on the historical past of the country in which the orchestra developed.
Instruction manual
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The composition and principle of organization of an orchestra of folk instruments of a particular country depends on the characteristics of the musical culture of that nation. They include folk instruments in a historically authentic or reconstructed form. Orchestras of folk instruments are divided into homogeneous, consisting of one domra, balalaika, bandura, and mixed, consisting of various instruments.
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Orchestras of folk instruments perform transcriptions of classical works, processing of folk songs and music written specially for them by composers. Orchestras, developed from folk art, today are in demand on large stages around the world.
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The first professional orchestra of folk instruments in Russia is considered to be the Great Russian Orchestra, formed from a group of lovers of playing the balalaika, which after the October Revolution was renamed the Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments named after V.V. Andreeva.
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The modern orchestra of Russian folk instruments traditionally includes such musical instruments as three-stringed domra, wind instruments (flutes, bagpipes, miserables of Russian origin, as well as flutes and oboes of European origin), button accordions, percussion instruments (bells, rattles, spoons, Russian tambourine origin, as well as timpani and bells of European origin), harp and, of course, balalaikas (prims, seconds, alto, bass, double bass).
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The prototypes of the Ukrainian folk instrument orchestra are considered to be ensembles of treble music, which included three performers - violinist, cymbalist and tambourine. In Soviet times, Ukraine inherited the traditions of the Russian folk instrument orchestra, the so-called Andreev orchestra. The basis of the modern orchestra of Ukrainian folk instruments includes a group of stringed bowed instruments similar in composition to this group in a symphony orchestra. Also included are woodwind musical instruments - flute and oboe, string-plucked (bandura and kobza), percussion instruments used in a symphony orchestra. Some orchestras also use cymbals and button accordions.
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In the last century, "Neapolitan" orchestras, based on mandolins and guitars, spread throughout Russia and Ukraine.
