Свирачи и хороиграчи: музикално-танцовото взаимодействие
Music-Players and Horo-Dancers: the Relation between Music and Dance

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the relation between music players and the dancers of the ring chain dance ("horo") in traditional culture through the eyes and experience of the folk musicians. The information collected in field interviews about the music playing for the "horo" outlines diverse means of communication, defined by the social normative requirements for the specific communicative situation on the part of the community as well as according to the fine mechanisms of "happening" of the communicative act during shared participation in the horo as a creative proceeding event. The article elaborates the social necessity to have a music player at the horo, the principles of mutual exchange of skills and values for the benefit both of the individual position of the music player of the horo and the dancers, who lay their conditions as a cultural commission. A next stage of extending the relationship is the correlation between the language of music and movement in the process of immediate communication in the horo. Comprising and structuring the instrumental horo music challenges the players and gives them freedom to sophisticate the language of the dance. On the other hand, the morphology of the horo melody depends on the mood of the dancers. The mutual commitment seems to be a result of accumulation of united dancing-and-musical energy. Within the minds of the participants in the dance event the instrumental music and the rhythmicand- movement activity are inseparable. The musician and the horo-dancers are two parties with equal participation in a wholesome process. The relation between them manifests in two types of behavior at different levels — in social perspective and as "musical" proceeding of the music-and-dancing act.

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