Пространствени кодове в структурата на многогласието
Spatial Codes in the Structure of Polyphonic Singing

Summary/Abstract: The author presents her detailed analysis of the folk taxonomy denoting voice movements in polyphonic singing. She advocates that the taxonomy under consideration introduces spatial and bodily codes. In addition she argues that they are to be understood as functionally predetermined, as well as reliant on ornamentation behavior and on the involvement of the components in polyphonic singing with one another. Thus the terms express and decode movements of musical “collective body” as a whole built out of functionally differing elements. Comparing collective monodic and polyphonic singing, the article raises the hypothesis of their similarity as based on spatial ritual technology. Archaic techniques found in polyphonic singing are reported to be initial points in decoding the principles of both monodic and polyphonic singing. The author also manages to differentiate the following movements in the polyphonic structure: meandering, circling, spiral movements. All that safely brings her to the conclusion that musical components, and especially sound height, contain archaic ideas coming from rituals and myth. Monodia and collective dances bare lively traces from the simplest, clearest and oldest mythological ideas.

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