With his eyes closed, Oleksandr Savchuk plucks the strings on his bandura, a lute-like Ukrainian folk instrument, as he delivers a gently melancholic performance in the frontline city of Kharkiv.

The lute is the most intimately expressive of musical instruments. A descendant of the lyre with which Orpheus mythically tamed the wild beasts, the lute returned to Europe more than a millennium ago ...

Appendices (p. 18-24): Ornamentation.--Various tunings and other forms of lute tablature.--Notes on some changes in technique and style of play from 1563-1678.--A ...

21.2 x 21.2 cm. (8.3 x 8.3 in.) ...