Editing Ukrainians (section)

===Music===
[[File:Театр оперы и балета. Зал.jpg|thumbnail|[[Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre|Odesa Opera House]]]]
{{Main|Music of Ukraine}}
Ukrainian music incorporates a diversity of external cultural influences. It also has a very strong indigenous [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] and Christian uniqueness whose elements were used among many neighboring nations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/alphasearch.asp?q=music|title=Ukrainian Music Elements|work=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies|year=2001|access-date=19 November 2012|archive-date=1 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101211707/http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/alphasearch.asp?q=music|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/Culture.asp#Topic_3|title=Ukrainian Wandering Bards: Kobzars, Bandurysts, and Lirnyks|publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies|year=2001|access-date=15 March 2016|quote=The artistic tradition of Ukrainian wandering bards, the kobzars (kobza players), bandurysts (bandura players), and lirnyks (lira players) is one of the most distinctive elements of Ukraine's cultural heritage.|archive-date=17 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917160307/http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/Culture.asp#Topic_3|url-status=live}}</ref>

Ukrainian folk oral literature, poetry, and songs (such as the dumas) are among the most distinctive ethnocultural features of Ukrainians as a people. Religious music existed in Ukraine before the official adoption of Christianity, in the form of plainsong "obychnyi spiv" or "musica practica". Traditional Ukrainian music is easily recognized by its somewhat melancholy tone. It first became known outside of Ukraine during the 15th century as musicians from Ukraine would perform before the royal courts in Poland (latter in Russia).{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

A large number of famous musicians around the world was educated or born in Ukraine, among them are famous names like [[Dmitry Bortniansky]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], [[Myroslav Skoryk]], etc. Ukraine is also the rarely acknowledged musical heartland of the former [[Russian Empire]], home to its first professional music academy, which opened in the mid-18th century and produced numerous early musicians and composers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/ukraine/en_US|title=Ukraine is the rarely acknowledged musical heartland of the former Russian Empire|work=National Geographic Society|year=2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515005555/http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/ukraine/en_US|archive-date=15 May 2011}}</ref>