Марияна Булева: „Идеята за хармония
About Mariyana Buleva’s The Idea of Harmony

Summary/Abstract: In Mariyana Buleva’s work the idea of harmony is expressed through the concept of harmony, without being its equivalent. This way of expression has been integrated in various philosophical and music-theoretical aspects from ancient times until now. Therefore, the examination of history and function of the concept of harmony has always been loaded with its sound substance and its aesthetic manifestations, which is one possible way of studying it. The second possible way is, if the existing views on unity in the universe are treated and thought of as an idea of harmony. Such an approach would have had as a subject of investigation the idea of harmony as an ontological reason for interpretation of unity in the examined texts. Thus, it would be equivalent to the study of formal axiological foundations of the idea and hence would have not only aesthetical, but also metaphysical, ethical and other grounds in different philosophical or theological discourses. Mariyana Buleva’s choices are well grounded in the studied texts. Examined are main ideas of harmony – numerical (theoretical, referring to co-measurement and proportionality) and functional (philosophic- ethical related to the order, utility, compatibility), which are systematically organized (outlining the knowledge of harmony in different eras, based on the notion of art, philosophy or theology). Mariyana Buleva’s The Idea of Harmony is an event in Bulgarian musicology, a fundamental work, which undoubtedly places its author amongst the elite of world’s thought, amongst the few of those called upon to achieve such essential insights in this so complex matter on the eternal state of sound and its endless possibilities for conjunction with itself, with another sound, with the spirit and the light; of the eternal desire of mind to reach perfection, harmony and thence to touch and merge with the divine idea.

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