Горица Найденова: „Иван Качулев, музикалните инструменти и звуковата среда. Теренни материали и научно дело“
Goritza Naydenova: „Ivan Kachulev, Musical Instruments and Soundscape: Field Material and Studies“

Summary/Abstract: Yet another work of a series of books with CDs, a special edition of the Bulgarian Musicology Journal, presents to the community of folklorists and academia part of the musical heritage kept in the Folk Music Archive of the Institute of Art Studies, BAS. After having rendered in sound Elena Stoin’s monograph on Bulgarian folk music dialects on the basis of recordings made during her fieldwork research, the initiator of the book series and author/compiler Goritza Naydenova, turns to Ivan Kachulev’s legacy. The monograph is much more than just a compilation of sound recordings accompanied by a critical commentary. It is also a kind of study/personalia on one of the founders of the Folk Music Archive and a leading researcher in the area of ethnoorganology in light of his fieldwork compared and combined with his scholarly publications. The idea was for the 130 recordings featured on the CD and the text to be perceived while reading them and listening to them. The text provides the reasons for the arrangement of the pieces, applying criteria selected by the author. In the section Musical Instruments and Instrumental Music, chronological-regional and functional principles have been applied seeking to lay bare both the development in the fieldwork and research carried out by Kachulev, and the presence of folk instruments in terms of their regional representation within the system of folk culture. The criteria for illustrating the old styles (lost in present performing practices but still found in the sound recordings) also seem to have played an essential role in the compilation. Theoretically highlighting the typology of the ritual soundscape developed by Tsenka Iordanova, Goritza Naydenova proceeds to systemise and present yet another specific part of Kachulev’s recordings (more specifically in the section, named “Soundscape”). These are the phenomena documented by him as opposed to the conscious process of singing and playing. This valuable documental and scholarly book is a sonic and verbal account which outlines, brings forth and illuminates the figure and scientific significance of Ivan Kachulev. It collects his documental legacy (hitherto fragmented) in its entirety and seems to complement the monographic research on Bulgarian folk musical instruments, which was intended by him, but remained unfinished in his lifetime.

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