Литургичните песнопения в музикалнофолклорния архив
The Liturgical Chants in the Music Folklore Archive

Summary/Abstract: The article presents 1200 phonic records with liturgical chants preserved in the music folklore archives. The records of entire church services as well as rerecords of church music from other sound-carriers (gramophone records and audio cassettes) are added to them. The start of research upon church music has created this independent archival fund. The phonic records, made from 1956 to 1987, reflect the status of church singing, documenting it through terrain observations. Along with liturgical chants have also been recorded folk songs performed by clergymen, performances of eminent church proto acolytes taught in the singing schools of 19 c., phenomena of the oral church singing practices have been documented. The archives have preserved chants appearing in the urban environment in 19 c.; performances of chants published in printed song collections; functioning as oral practice of already published chants. Attempts for creating chants in the style of 19 c. have been preserved as well. Church and monastery bells ringing have been documented as a sound picture. Archival data have been used as the basis of research and studies - two music fragments in the Town Museum of History in Sliven (see notes 12, 13).

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