Тайната реч
Spoken in Secret

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a glimpse of how the language of New Music in Bulgaria was conceived and constructed. Having started as an inside tongue, a secret tool for a conspiracy of ideas, an undercover pact, and a mutually shared illusion, this language was developed underground while being effectively shunned by society. The new techniques, the aesthetics, and the shift in musical thinking e.g. through the recounts of Konstantin Iliev after his return from Prague. The result was the forging of an apt and most adequate language of the Spirit, as well as a bona fide breach in the secular-hedonistic bloodline dominating Bulgarian music until then. Particularly revealing in this respect is the epistolary correspondence between Konstantin Iliev and Lazar Nikolov - a true testimony that the inception and vindication of the idea of New Music in Bulgaria was the brainchild of a fiercely intensive and conspiratorial intellectual process connecting the two minds in a nearly ecstatic spiritual exchange.

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