Stoian Djudjev, Lubomir Pipkov: the missing link? Cover Image
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Стоян Джуджев – Любомир Пипков: липсващата връзка?
Stoian Djudjev, Lubomir Pipkov: the missing link?

Author(s): Goritza Naydenova
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Stoian Djudjev; Lubomir Pipkov; Bulgarian musicology; Bulgarian musical folkloristics; discussion on national music style; metrorythmic theory of Bulgarian folkloric music; Lubomir Pipkov’s, piano cycles.

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to find if it was by chance that the core of Stoian Djudjev’s scientific paradigm (based on the view of the consistency of language with its music and the origins of music rhythm in the rhythm of language) concurred with the creative solutions of composer Lubomir Pipkov. Was the folklorist’s 1930s vision of the ways of achieving national style prophetic or was Lubomir Pipkov influenced by his texts? What are the options of music theory in Bulgaria to be prescriptive, influencing composers’ quests at a technological level? The article traces particular cases of borrows of music material from examples adduced by Stoian Djudjev’s theoretical works and/or the collections of folk songs compiled by Vasil Stoin in late Lubomir Pipkov’s piano cycles, dealing with the ‘play of metrorhythms’ (in his own words). In this sense, evidence is sought in the fact that Pipkov, while working on these pieces, has carefully paid attention to what was happening in the field of folkloristics and its metrorhythmic theory, including the works by Stoian Djudjev (e.g., the limit of 15 metric times taken as the biggest number of chronos protos in one bar, established by Djudjev in 1954 and reflected in the creation of Pipkov’s Proletni priumitzi [Spring Whims] and Ot 1 do 15 [1 to 15] in the late 1960s and the early 1970s).

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 3-21
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian