Отново за функционалната класификация на образците от традиционната селска музика и научната традиция на Института за музикознание
Yet Again on the Functional Classification of Traditional Rural Music Samples and the Scientific Tradition of the Institute of Musicology

Summary/Abstract: This publication was called forth by the need to develop a real-time database of the Folk Music Archive of the Institute of Art Studies while working on а project named “Cultural Heritage in the Archives of the Institute of Art Studies: An Interactive Map of the Arts in Bulgaria”. The subject matter arises from the fact that arranging things by function is one of the basic systematising procedures in Bulgarian musical folkloristics and ethnomusicology, as functional belonging is always included in the accession records of the songs and instrumental tunes recorded for the archive. The article traces the practical application (in the collections of folk songs published until 1975) and various stages in the conceptualisation of functional classification (largely unpublished). A version of functional classification supplemented by the author has beenoffered at the end – it draws on the achievements of generations of researchers at the Institute of Musicology, the then Institute of Art History (both being predecessors of the Institute of Art Studies). The aforesaid version is based on structuring the functional groups of songs and instrumental tunes in accordance with the general concept of the three temporal axes of cyclical time in traditional culture: the calendar cycle, the individual life cycle and the communal life cycle.

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