Съдържание на словесния музикалнофолклорен архив и степен на информационната му обработка
Contents of the Verbal Music Folklore Archives and Degree of Their Informational Processing

Summary/Abstract: The verbal music folklore archives are the oldest unit in the entire Music Folklore archives at the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The documents are registered in two books containing 10 077 numbers. The archival units exceed 200 000.Amongst them there are terrain materials, purchases, donations, “insurance” fund of copies. The materials are the work of more than 80 researchers and reflect the stages in the development of Bulgarian music folklore science. The archives contain folklore collections of Bulgarian Mohammedans (Pomatsi), Bulgarian catholics, Gagauzi; Bulgarian immigrants from Aegean Thrace and North Dobrudja, Bulgarian emigrant to Bessarabia and Asia Minor; the Bulgarian population in the Western regions (Serbia) and Macedonia (now located in Macedonia and Greece). The interest in the ethnic communities in Bulgaria accounts for the formation of archival collectons of Turkish and Rumanian songs and instrumental melodies and Karakachan, Gypsy, Tatar, Wallach, Russian, Jewish, Arnaut (Albanian) and Kutsowallach songs. The genre belonging of the archival materials strikes with its variety. The share of ritual songs is the highest, followed by the horn-leading and labour songs. The contents of the Archives are a live history of the music folklore tradition in 20 century, reflecting its functioning, falling apart and transforming. The documen­tation from the numerous fairs- singing competitions, fairs-instrument playing contests, reviews and festivities is of specific significance. The materials in the Archives are divided in two big groups: recorded by notation or by sound-recording equipment (phonograms). The work in the Music Folklore Archives involves the following activities: making inventories, deciphering, copying, editing, cataloging, printing the archival materials. The Archives have a card-index system according to location and genre. The Archives are open to everybody interested in musical folklore - both professional and amateurs. Archival information is made available. The creation folklore music data base and its inclusion in the Internet facilitate the use of the archival materials all over the world. The data base is in the process of creating and increasing. The Internet presentation and a future conception for a complete music-information system, including the process of making the Archives digital, would expand their possibilities as a basis and motivation for scientific studies.

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