Instrumentacja El amor brujo Manuela de Falli

Author(s): Andżelika Jędrzejczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04 (27)/2015

Manuel de Falla was one of the greatest Spanish composers of the first half of the 20th century. He created just a few orchestral works, chamber music and music for the piano and voice and the piano. In his works, impressionistic sensibility is combined with the Iberian spontaneity, which added individual character to his compositions. What certainly deserves special attention is the ballet El amor brujo (The Bewitched Love), whose instrumentation is the subject of this article. Instrumentation in El amor brujo plays a crucial role in shaping of the work. The composer combines classic and modernist elements. First of all, the limited number of musicians in the orchestra - a single cast brass and string quintet reminiscent of early classical orchestra. However, the assignment of subjects mainly to wind instruments refers to the Romanticism. At the same time however, de Falla assimilates achievements of orchestral impressionism, such as the use of the piano and a wide range of strings articulations. In addition, we note de Falla's penchant for exploiting small-ensemble as opposed to neoromantic tendency to use great orchestral compositions, therefore, the full cast works, together with bells, which is heard only through three-bar Final. The treatment of the orchestra on the principle of gradation of sounds and numerous references to the guitar texture in strings and piano parts are essential features of Spanish folk music, and are present in all the works of Manuel de Falla.

Българският ХХ век в изкуствата и културата

Author(s): Sasha Lozanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

„В шепите на Демир Баба“ – наблюдения при премиерата на един нов фестивал

Author(s): Hyulia Ahmed / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

The first celebration of contemporary art in the heart of Ludogorie, called “In the Hand of Demir Baba” – literature, music, theater and “something else”, added a new event in the festival calendar of Bulgaria. Organized by young people with the ambition to promote local cultural heritage and disprove the general view of the lack of interesting and entertaining events outside the capital, the festival, as a pilot, promises more meetings with Demir Baba and asks to become an annual event for sharing culture and meeting with interesting people from all over the country.

Музиката на „медийния фронт“

Author(s): Snezhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

A review of Ventsislav Dimov’s book ‘Music for the people on the media front (The soft power of peoples and popular music in Socialist Bulgaria)’. Sofia: University Press ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, 2019 (368 p.). ISBN 978-954-07-4796-5. This monograph is part of the research on the collective scientific project ‘The soft power of popular music in media (by examples from Bulgaria and the Balkans)’, financed by the Bulgarian National Science Fund (05/16).

90 години Старозагорска опера и 70 години от одържавяването й

Author(s): Emiliya Zhunich / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

90 years ago a group of enthusiasts form an opera ensemble, as it occurs in many other localities. And if after one or two titles everything finishes mainly because of lack of funding, exactly in that consists the heroism of citizens of Stara Zagora: the only amateur ensemble which exists 21 years long, and after that it is nationalized in 1946. The nationalization is a kind of recognition but this leads to shocks. In 1967 lays the beginnings of the annually organized Festival of the Opera and Ballet Arts – a mirror of the achievements in the area of music and performing arts. Because of a conflagration end of 1991 the ensemble left homeless. In 2015 the State Operа Stara Zagora celebrates its 90th anniversary, and on the 1st of April 2016 it is 70 years since its nationalization.

„Пирин пее 2018“ – между изворния фолклор, художествената самодейност и професионалното изкуство

Author(s): Petyo Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Pirin Pee Festival is an event which demonstrates in a specific way the concepts for safeguarding and popularization of tradition. In its core is the scenic representation of examples of traditional local culture. All this provokes mutual interaction between different points of view to ancient singing and music making – authentic folklore, the motors of the event who are the performers and the organizers (they are mainly connected to amateur art practiced in the different chitalishta) and, on the other hand, those who stay behind the artistic interpretation of the local culture within the frame of professional art. In this context the festival is a place for active keeping to the tradition and its influence in the present as well as in the future. All that contributes to the specific, colorful contemporary picture displayed on the festival that is further observed or enriched by specialists, performers and connoisseurs.

История на българските фолклорни танци от европейска гледна точка

Author(s): György Németh / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The European dance culture is homogeneous. Many of the European dances are not only related to each other but are also variations of each other. Their area of distribution (the ancient Roman Empire) indicates that a common dance ancestor had already existed in antiquity. This ancient dance is the so called Faroe step. The ideology of humanism resulted in a worldview in which the human being and his free will become the measures of everything. Human needs and interests are put in the centre of the new worldview. The worth of the individual increases and he is gradually released from his shackles, life turns into a priority, a demand for individual gratification appeared: amusement, entertainment, dance. From the local variants of the Faroe step used in the ancient rituals has developed in a fanlike manner the European dances (including the Bulgarian ones) with their incredibly rich tempos and rhythm were developed. They were all inspired by the dominant instrumental musical accompaniment.

Обреди и празници в селата Долен и Сатовча – песенната традиция на християни и мюсюлмани

Author(s): Milko Boshnakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article presents main rites and feasts in the villages of Dolen and Satovcha. The specifics of the singing tradition of the Bulgarian Christians and Muslims are described. The author finds that despite of the fact that some traditional rites and feasts such as Peperuda, maiden chain dance on Bayram, etc. are no longer performed, the songs connected to them continue to be performed.

В началото бе хорото...

Author(s): Dilyana Kurdova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Interview

Съборът на народното творчество „Пирин пее“ в архивни документи, съхранявани в Националния център за нематериално културно наследство при ИЕФЕМ – БАН

Author(s): Milena Lyubenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Archives

След „Медея”, или за общото между магията и превода

Author(s): Georgi Gochev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

A blitz interview with Georgi Gochev, classical scholar and translator, on his recent work on a new Bulgarian version of Euripides’ Medea done especially for Snezhina Petrova’s socially engaged staging of the ancient tragedy.

Историите на Джуха ал-Хариси

Author(s): Nedelya Kitaeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 40/2020

Short introduction to Jokha al-Harthi, her writing and the cultural context she comes from by the translator, Dr. Nedelya Kitaeva, who is teaching Arabic language and Culture at the New Bulgarian University.

The Transformation of Local Society in the 20th Century in the Light of Dancing Practice: The Case of the Kóny Verbunk

Author(s): Ágnes Eitler / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

During the twentieth century, the male dance verbunk in the village of Kóny, initially performed in traditional lad societies as part of the local heritage, became a staged attraction. Between the two world wars, the Kóny verbunk was performed in the village as a representation practice of the lad societies and, as such, besides maintaining the group identity, served to indicate the spatial segregation and social differences within the local community. The decade after the Second World War brought the socio-economic transformation of local society in line with national processes. The relational network on which lad societies had been based was suppressed. In the first half of the 1950s, along with the persisting practice of the lad guilds, the verbunk became increasingly a staged spectacle for the community. At the same time, it should not be ignored that, under the supervision of the local authorities, the phenomenon shifted from the framework of church holidays to the field of political celebrations.

Читалището и опазването на нематериалното културно наследство (Из живота на групите за фолклор в Бистрица и Алино)

Author(s): Stela Nenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The article represents the folklore groups created in the second half of the 20th century. They allow for the local village tradition (preserved as a living practice of its bearers) to enter the local chitalishte. The analysis of the filed-work research in the villages of Bistritsa (Sofia City Municipality) and Alino (Samokov Region) reveals different aspects of the relation between chitalishte institution and intangible cultural heritage in the changing social and cultural contexts, as well as in relation to the changing cultural policies. Thus the article offers an anthropological point of view to the transmission of traditional knowledge, skills and experience in chitalishte environment.

Междупредметните области и българският фолклор в обучението по музика в началното училище

Author(s): Radka Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

Musical education has undoubted influence in the process of the overall formation of the personality. The thematic accent in the educational content of music is the Bulgarian musical folklore. The outline and understanding of integrative links with other subjects are necessary to build a productive cognitive process, to preserve and stimulate interest in Bulgarian folklore. The integral approach develops the pupils' potential and motivates them for a deeper study of the subjects.

Изкуството на Кандински и пътят към Експресионизма

Author(s): Krista Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2018

Kandinsky's work, his achievements in the search for new means of expression in painting and, in a broader sense, a new understanding of art, may seem strange, unbalanced and groundless even today. But with Kandinsky, as with any artist, we find prerequisites for this in his biography. Childhood and adolescence leave an imprint on his work. In his young years, along with his innate talent, he builds inner motivation and gains a stimulus for creativity.

Проявления на Експресионизма в изкуствата

Author(s): Krista Kirova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2018

Expressionism, cradled by Germany, flourished during the so-called "Expressionist Decade" (1910-1920). Its most common socio-cultural precondition is the crisis in the public and moral-ethical consciousness on the eve and during the First World War. It expresses the will to change a generation that grew up with the nightmares of war and the deepening decline of bourgeois-philistine consciousness. Like most modernist trends in art, expressionism uses the provocation of "good taste," the breaking of outdated traditional orders and aesthetic habits. The meaning of the term is derived from "expression" - an expression of feelings, which in the most general sense is the artist's desire to project the torments of his own soul on the depicted object.

OpenType и съвременна българска кирилица. Стари и нови технологии

Author(s): Todor Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2018

This article focuses on the digital font format developed in the late 90s and released in the early 2000s called OpenType and its implementation in general with the emphasis on Bulgarian Cyrillic. Starting from early printing technologies from the 15th century and going through the first digital print and the development of Bezier curves and computer vectors right until the freshest developments and ideas of Variable fonts.

Необоснована, безнаказана и неприкосновена красота („Кристо и Жан-Клод /Софтуер“ в галерия „УниАрт“)

Author(s): Rosena Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 41/2020

Choices that must be made when dealing with artworks defying representationchallenge the curators to rethink the exhibition space and seek new ways to tella story within it. This text is focused on the curatorial approach to an exhibitionof posters from various site-specific projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Thetext is also about the unique character of the works themselves as depicted onthe posters, about the social and political background that connects Christo andthe Bulgarian audience which was subtly contextualised in the NBU exhibitionbuilding.

Краудсорсингът в подкрепа на обществената функция на БНТ

Author(s): Maria Cholakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 41/2020

The text is driven by the concept of crowdsourcing and seeks its application in supportof the public function of the Bulgarian National Television. The author developsconcrete suggestions how to implement user-generated content for the benefit of thepublic media content.