Стефка Венкова: „Музиката на Католическата църква от източен обред в България”
Stefka Venkova: Music of the Catholic Church of Eastern Ritual in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The question about the music of the Catholic Church of Eastern ritual is studied for the first time in the newly published book of Dr. Stefka Venkova. The author has succeeded in discovering, systematizing and classifying original source materials that were preserved on different places in Bulgaria. This is a great contribution because there was no archive of this Church until now. The notated materials only are 3100 and are systematized into 150 archive groups. The author studies the music history of the Catholic Church of Eastern ritual in its complexity discussing the “meeting point” of the two great cultural traditions – Orthodox and Catholic one in terms of what was taken from the one and what from the other, how it was composed and assimilated in the ritual and what was the Bulgarian like in the music performed in the Church. The music history of the Catholic Church of Eastern ritual is reconstructed within a century and a half – since 1860 up to the present day. It is based on the newly found scores and repertory performed according to them, composers and conductors involved in the activity of the Church. As a whole the book represents an important reference material for everybody interested in the music history of the Catholic Church of Eastern ritual in Bulgaria.

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