80 години от рождението на Генчо Гайтанджиев (1935 – 2010)
Gencho Gaytandjiev’s 80th anniversary (1935–2010)

Summary/Abstract: The 80th anniversary of Gencho Gaytandjiev, a musicologist (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), university professor, active figure in the development and the existing state of affairs in Bulgarian music teaching and a journalist will be marked in 2015. The paper presents his views on mass music education as a result of his understanding of the dynamics of music culture for which he stood up all along his career of a researcher and teacher. The article uses as a basis of observation Gencho Gaytandjiev’s recent publication airing the ‘constitution’ of his ideas of music education, for which he and the teams he has worked with stood up. The main points of this ‘constitution’ are compared with his publications of previous decades. The paper reaches the conclusion that the assumption of the researcher and teacher to cover music in all its diversity and current state of affairs sets the pattern for the unity and continuity of his pedagogical principles, while the composed textbooks in music have always proven to be different, standing at the same time for the same value: pursuit of relevance, communicativeness and tolerance of musical tastes. Gencho Gaytandjiev’s contribution to the study of popular music is also dealt with. He has introduced a pluralistic approach to music culture defined by Claire Levy as ‘horizontal’, where different genres are not arranged in a hierarchy of values, but are regarded in the general domain of culture. In this article, this approach is defined as precisely musicological. The paper seeks to cover Gencho Gaytandjiev’s personality and his contribution of a researcher and a coach as a significant input on Bulgarian musicology and music pedagogy.

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