Фази на импровизационния процес: модел – зона на третиране – интерпретация (подстъп към метод на зонална нотация върху примера на фолклорнопесенната орнаментика)
Phases of Improvisation: Model – Handling Zone – Interpretation (Approach to a Method of Zonal Notation Based on the Example of Ornamentation in Traditional Songs)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a stage in broader research aimed at the creation of notation that could adequately reflect the improvisational nature of ornamental figures in Bulgarian traditional rural music. Taking as a starting point certain definitions and hypotheses about the forces behind the improvisational process developed by a number of researchers, the text discusses the essence of the phases building the improvisational type of music-making as well as their coherence. As a result, the hypothesis of the existence of a “handling zone” has been arrived at, where the handling zone is a non-temporal metamusical construct in which the elements of the improvisational model are subjected to a process of manipulation by the performer. The steps towards the analytical disclosure of the handling zones in traditional songs have been delineated. On this basis, the article’s concluding section outlines a prospect for the creation of a notation method for these zones enabling an ornamental transcription to be both descriptive and prescriptive, i.e. focused more on the mental process of ornamentation, rather than its individual acoustic manifestations.

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