В търсене на културната идентичност на средновековната българска църковна музика (Към постановката на проблема)
Looking for the Cultural Identity of the Medieval Bulgarian Church Music (To the formulation of the problem)

Summary/Abstract: The following questions are posed in the article: could we speak about the cultural identity of the medieval Bulgarian music? If we could, where and how should we look for it? How should we distinguish the Bulgarian music from this one of the other Balkan orthodox countries whose paths of development are closely crossed? How should we define the specific “Bulgarian” in medieval Balkan orthodox music? It is clear that questions like these do not have a simple answer. First, it is necessary to know what is the character of the Orthodox music like, its meaning in the context of the whole Orthodox culture of which it is only a part, and second, it is necessary to know the creative process of the medieval musician, his or her system of values: what he or she believed in and what he or she strived at. The question about the cultural identity of the Bulgarian church music is a complex question which suggests a thorough study of musical sources: the peculiarity of the palaeography, the selection and preference of musical repertory included, the musical language of the pieces, and the author’s predilections. The study of all of this will allow us to reveal the specific features of a given source, scriptorium, author, region and even of a separate country.

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