Църковните песни на банатските българи
Church Songs of the Banatian Bulgarians

Summary/Abstract: The investigation of the musical culture of Bulgarian Catholics, who have immigrated to the region of Svishtov from Banat, shows the importance of their specific church song repertory in lithurgical practice. The stability of this repertory in the collective memory for the community's culture is confirmed. The conserva¬tion in time is realized by printed books of prayers, brought from Banat and containing song texts from Croat¬ian sources, translated in Banatian dialect, as well as by orally translated song melodies. The Banatian lithur¬gicai singing is one of the factors for belonging to a local community, different from the rest of Bulgarian Catholics. The old church song tradition, brought in from Banat, is most stable in holiday masses. The author observes the place of the Banatian chants during the Christmas Catholic mass in the village of Dragomirovo in 1995. Only two of ten church songs performed are Banatian. The appendix contains a song, known from Banatian written sources from 1860, which represents the climax of the Christmas mass.

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