Марияна Булева: „За музикалната теория: специфика, изследователски процес, методология“
Mariyana Buleva: “On Music Theory: Specificity Research Process, Methodology”

Summary/Abstract: Mariana Buleva’s new book is a fundamental metatheoretical study dedicated to music theory and problematising the scientific component of its understanding. The author creates a model of her complex object, based on the ontological and paradigmatic foundations of musicology, in whose systematics the music theory is inscribed, and offers a systematisation of the research process in the field and its methodology. Mariyana Buleva used the possibilities of the term “paradigm” introduced by Thomas Kuhn to examine the historical development and the current state of music theory and to draw the boundaries of “normal music-theoretical science”. Presenting Dalhouse’s three historically formed traditions of music theory – speculative, regulatory, and analytical – she offers her paradigmatic system of matryoshki paradigms applicable to music theory and emphasises the primordial relationship between it and philosophy and the need for awareness. By extracting problematisations of the research methodology from existing musicological studies, the text created a relief picture of the current state of Bulgarian musicology. The unprecedented national systematisation of the methodology in music theory, the refinement of terminology, and the demonstration of various research strategies applied to specific texts highlight the scientific contribution of the monograph to the field of metacognitive knowledge and, at the same time, demonstrate its powerful applied potential.

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