Изучаването на старата българска музика - предизвикателства и проблеми
The Study of Old Bulgarian Music – Challenges and Problems

Summary/Abstract: The field of Old Bulgarian music has as a subject of study the church music. It is one of the youngest fields of research in Bulgarian musicology. The historical and methodological grounds of it were laid by Petar Dinev and Elena Toncheva in the 60s of the twentieth century. Until present day the research in this field went through a great development. Various approaches were applied: historical, theoretical, palaeographical, codicological, liturgical, and theological. The history of Bulgarian church music from the ninth through the nineteenth century was reconstructed: many musical sources, musicians and musical schools became known. Several generations contributed to this field and changed the research perspectives especially in terms of characterization of its national specification. Today the field of Old Bulgarian music is considered as an interdisciplinary area of study and as part of the whole Christian culture. The results, including the digitization of some important musical collections preserved in Bulgarian libraries, are released in vast majority of publications in Bulgaria and abroad.

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