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"A Study on Ukrainian Proverbs" describes Ukrainian proverbs to understand the living philosophy of Ukrainians. Includes questionnaire.

An annotated bibliography about the bandura.

A review of a book of folksongs gathered by Marko Vovchok,issued by Muzychna Ukraina in1979.

This project contains texts of wedding and other traditional songs by John Ewasiuk who has sung at weddings for over 50 years.

A collection of proverbs relating to folk medicine.

Field videos of Chychul making tsymbaly

Includes wedding songs and customs, harvest songs, spring songs (hahilky), love songs, humorous songs, Cossack songs, carols, Malanka songs, kolomyiky, and proverbs collected by Irene Scharabun for the UKR-421 course at the University of Alberta.

This project includes a collection of proverbs and sayings with sources from informants from western Ukraine.

A collection of jokes, proverbs, New Year's verses and texts of other folk songs collected by Irene Scharabun for the UKR-499 course at the University of Alberta.

This work is aimed at identifying and discussing the qualities of the male demonological characters of Lesja Ukrajinka's drama "Lisova Pisnja".

Final essay on Drahomanov's collection of Ukrainian political songs circa 1709-1739 by Yarema Kowalchuk for course UKR 699.

The paper "Mykola Kostomarov and Ukrainian Folklore" aims at examining Kostomarov and his attempts at finding the differences in national character between Ukrainians and Russians to construct the entirety of the Ukrainian national character.

This project contains an interview with Mr. Hoshko about non-Christian beliefs and superstitions that he encountered throughout his childhood. This assignment includes recollections from Mr. Hoshko about: folk medicine, ghost and gypsy encounters, and others.

The material was collected by Roman Brytan for his UKR-421 course at the University of Alberta. The collection consists of texts and some musical scores for songs sung in Alberta communities. Contains musical scores for some songs and choreography for dance songs.

The audio recording contains songs recorded in Edmonton from Sophia Klymkovych, Mykhailo Shmihel's'kyi and Maria Bukyda in December 1978.

A collection of Ukrainian provers collected in Alberta for the UKR-421 course and their explanations. The sources include following interviewees: Dmytro Petriw (Roman's father), Bohdan Medwidsky, prof. Zujewsky, pani Prits', pani Ianyshevs'ka, prof. Carlton, Zenon Paranych (Roman's grandfather), maestro Kolesnyk, pani Husak, pan Vasyliv.

A collection of proverbs about birth, weddings, and death.

Collection of songs and proverbs collected by Ihor Kruk in 1973 in Kuban' from the woman who was born in 1894 and moved to Kuban' in 1905, and proverbs collected in 1977 in Canada.

"The Development of the Contemporary Bandura Scene in North America" discusses bandura playing and ensembles in North America with a brief history of how the Bandura came into existence.

"Ukrainian Christmas Eve" compares the Christmas Eve customs and rituals celebrated in Ukraine and in Canada.

Talks about doctors from Ukraine.