Folklore Ideas for the Song from Dospei village, Samokov region Cover Image

Фолклорни представи за песента от с. Доспей, Самоковско
Folklore Ideas for the Song from Dospei village, Samokov region

Author(s): Vesselka Toncheva
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ

Summary/Abstract: The text presents the two-part singing from Dospey village, Samokov region, (which according to its musical characteristics belongs to the singing diaphony from the Middle West Bulgaria) from the viewpoint of the native singers – how the diaphony is rationalized in the folklore musical consciousness – and also from the viewpoint of the researcher who „comments” these notions. In this text the singers from Dospey „speak” and I complement their concept with the scientific positions on the two-part singing in several main aspects – Dospey`s two-part singing in the context of the Bulgarian diaphony; the folk terminology of the voices in the two-part singing; the learning of the two-part singing; spatial placement of the singers in the two-part singing; antiphony in the two-part singing; essence of the two-part song structure from Dospey.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 221-227
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian