„Славянски музикални ръкописи в Рилския манастир“. Ценен принос в изучаването на православната музика
“Slavonic Musical Manuscripts in Rila Monastery” Valuable Contrubution to the Study of Orthodox Music

Summary/Abstract: Slavonic musical manuscripts in Rila monastery is a book, published in 2012 as a result of a project sponsored by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Youth and Science. The purpose of the project is a detailed description of all musical manuscripts, kept now in Rila monastery. ‘Slavonic musical manuscripts…’ is the first volume of the project: next volumes will be focused on the musical manuscripts written in Greek as well as those bilingual manuscripts written in both Church Slavonic and Greek. Forty one musical manuscripts, written in Church Slavonic and notated with Chrysantine notation are described in this volume. Five Bulgarian scientists from different fields of study (musicology, codicology, paleography, art history) are the authors: Asen Atanasov, Svetlana Kujumdzieva, Vasya Velinova, Elena Uzunova and Elissaveta Moussakova. The contents include five chapters: 1. Rila Musical Manuscripts in the Context of Bulgarian Culture; 2. Systematizations: (a) Slavonic musical manuscripts in Rila monastery (a list), (b) types of books, (c) dated manuscripts, (d) compilers, (e) composers, (f) similar manuscripts, (g) chants for the services of St. John of Rila († 946) and St. Petka-Paraskeva of Tarnovo († 11th c.); 3. Scholarly Description of the manuscripts: (a) signature number of the manuscript, (b) type of the manuscript, (c) date, (d) physical description, (e) binding, (f) orthography, (g) decoration, (h) language, (i) contents of chant repertory in full details, (j) inscriptions of the compiler, (k) inscriptions from other hands, (l) history of the manuscript, stamps, old signature numbers, (m) a bibliography on the manuscript; 4. Album; 5. Indexes. For the first time such an analytical description of Slavonic musical manuscripts from the Balkans is published.

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