Музиката и нейните „личности" (Към проблема „музика за църква")
Music and Its "Personalities" (On the problem of "music for church")

Summary/Abstract: The theses in the report have been drawn from the fundamental formulation that there exists a logical analogy between the idea of personality and the idea of music, parity between the personal being of man and the “personal” being of music. This motivates the metaphoric use of the concept “personality” in respect to music. The relation between the personal and musical identity is being followed from a historical angle: the idea of the personal being dominating in a certain epoch corresponds to the idea of the essence of music in that epoch. This relation is illustrated with the parallel between the positions of two Christian thinkers - St. Aurelii Augustine and Soren Kirkegor. The value relationship between music and sensuality supported by them is being considered from the point of view of the aesthetics of expressiveness characteristic for the end of the XVIII c. and particularly for the XIX c. In this context the study focuses upon the composers’ church music in Bulgaria as a new phenomenon in the musical culture from the late XIX c. and early XX c. Among the different interpretations of this phenomenon, the national one dominates in the history of Bulgarian music. New perspectives for study are opened by placing it in a religious context, in the context of the Orthodox liturgy and the role of music in it, interpreted not as a practical function, but as a way of bringing man closer to divine reality and achieving his own personal identity.

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