Сватба и сватбена музика у българите мюсюлмани от Тетевенско
WEDDING AND WEDDING MUSIC AMONG THE BULGARIAN MUSLIMS FROM TETEVEN REGION

Summary/Abstract: The article presents wedding and the musical component of the wedding ritual among the Bulgarian Muslims from the region of Teteven. Some of the musical examples, examined in it, are “taken out” from the memories of the informants, others are parts of the wedding, as it could be observed today. The text makes an attempt at a reconstruction of the wedding rituals among this population, which is descriptive to some extent. This is necessary for clarifying the ritual context, in which the concrete musical pattern existed, or exists nowadays. Special attention is paid to the music (both vocal and instrumental), performed at the wedding table and the wedding horo dance and especially the regional variant of the Payduchko horo and its place in the ritual. The text draws parallels with the wedding misic of the Christian population in neighboring settlements, and in northeastern Bulgaria, proving the unity of wedding rituals in the region and in northern Bulgaria as a whole.

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