Лилия Крачева: Музикална творба и изпълнителска практика: музикалнокултурни модели
Lilia Kracheva: Pieces of Music and Performing Practices: music-cultural models

Summary/Abstract: In her latest book, Lilia Kracheva studies the interplay between a piece of music and the performing practices. The author comments on the main ideas pertaining to the topic, but also skilfully works out her own models, presenting ingenious analyses of various aspects of the complex interplay between composing and performing. Thus she for example interprets the specifics of the shaping of a piece of music in cultures that have developed their professional music at a later stage (as exemplified by Bulgarian musical culture between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century); the specifics of the interplay between composing and performing in Italian opera of the seventeenth through the nineteenth century; the issue of the transcripts as a ‘mediated’ form of the diachronic dialogic model, etc. Central to the study is the communication process during the real functioning of the art of music with its distinct stages: composition, performance, reception by the listeners and the latter’s reaction. Lilia Kracheva’s book is a profound and comprehensive historical and music-cultural study in a dense but ‘communicative’ language. It deals with a significant theme and contains interesting facts and analyses, relevant ideas and approaches. The supplement features six interviews with Bulgarian performers of contemporary music, who shed more light on the problematics under consideration.

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