Понятието народна песен - от музикално-фолклористично към специфизирано научно мислене
The Concept of Folk Song - from Music-Folkloristic to Specified Scientific Thinking

Summary/Abstract: The idea of developing music-folkloristic thinking refers to musical folklore as a science, taken in its establishment, development and recognition as an independent scientific subject. At the same time music-folkloristic thinking is treated as a concept of wider and richer content volume than the analogous science. It comprises various, but interrelated and merging into one another content, value, psychological, ideological and other arrangements, oriented towards folklore as a cognitive object and subjectively experienced value. The folkloristic arrangement contains a committed attitude to an entire type of culture with its numerous components and relations. Expanding the concept of the folk song, treated not only as a musical-poetic, but cultural object too, it will appear in front of us in all its complex entity as a subject of folklore. Behind the song as a cultural fact is the creatively committed person, who, telling us with his/her singing about their world and about themselves, becomes self-aware and realizes himself/herself as a subject and creator of culture. Before being the object of artistic analysis -poetical and musical, the folk song excites interest and empathy as a fact of culture. Precisely like such it becomes the object of interest and attention - not specialized by a scientific or artistic feature, but motivated culturally. Characteristic for music-folkloristic thinking, talking and writing is that conception medium, which differentiates and prepares the conditions of crystallization of a strictly scientific discourse. In a wider interpretation of the science music folklore, the entire broad sphere of committed activity towards the Bulgarian folk song can be interpreted as initial, in some respects incubation period of music folklore. The idea of singing, respectively music, is implicitly contained in the concept of folk song. The high evaluation of folk song, reaching idealization and cult, also includes its musical merits. The border between music­ folkloristic and strict scientific thinking is not well defined, the transition from one into the other type of thinking is gentle and fluent.

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