Безмълвно ли е „безмълвното“ музикално знание
Is the “Tacit” Nonverbal Musical Knowledge Tacit?

Summary/Abstract: The realization of this dictionary project for lexicography of specific musical terms aims to present the crystallized traditional term system of multipart folk singing from Bulgaria, but has no pretence to provide any reflection on the presented language of the rural singers. The concepts of the research on and presentation of poly-semantic traditional terms related to the pre-modern multipart folk singing is based on the understanding that the bearers of the multi part song tradition from Bulgaria use specific terms and phrases to verbalize their singing experience. The expressing of the musical experience through different verbal forms is the purpose of this lexicon of the musical terms of traditional multipart singing from Bulgaria. The terms presented in the lexicon come from the large multipart region of Middle-West Bulgaria, called Shoppe region by Bulgarian explorers. The basic source for the musical terms were interviews with singers from villages in Kyustendil region (the sub-regions Piyanets, Kyustendilsko Kraishte), Dupnitsa region (the sub-regions Razmetanitsa, Gorno Pole, Dolno Pole) and Samokov region (Palakariyata sub-region). The talks with the singers were recorded in the period 1983-1993. In this period, on various reasons and with different purposes I have made field researches related to the multipart singing from Middle-West Bulgaria. The terms and phrases are methodologically organized by meaning in several fields: singers, singing, learning, types of songs, other terms, aesthetic, current situation. This outline is filled only with the meanings of the terms that are present in the lingual experience of the interviewed rural singers. The terms in the lexicon are indicators, which help the singers to understand and explain to themselves the multipart song tradition from Bulgaria. Moreover, these terms are used for specific presentation of different meanings and nuances of the multipart singing reality, which is enveloped in a huge amount of lingual expressions.

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