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Приносът на Стоян Джуджев за развитието на българската музикалнофолклорна наука
The Contribution of Stoyan Djudjev to the Development of Bulgarian Music Folklore Science

Author(s): Lydia Litova- Nikolova
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The suggestion of introducing a systematic course of folk music in the State Academy of Music belongs to Stoyan Djudjev. Relying on the ideas and scientific production of Dobri Hristov and Vassil Stoin in the field of Bulgarian Music Folkloristic, in 1934 he sent a well-motivated exposition to the Ministry of Education, in which he presented a draft program for the course of education with the relevant research methodology. By a decision of the Academic Council of the State Academy of Music, from 1935 Stoyan Djudjev started having classes in folk music as a separate subject as a lecturer, and from the 1937/193 8 academic year he was appointed a regular teacher. He is the author of the four-volume series “A Theory of Bulgarian Folk Music”, which is the basis of the Textbook of Bulgarian Folk Music for the student of the SAM, published in the 1970s in two volumes. In them he included and systematized basic problems of Bulgarian folklore science in accordance with the contemporary level of scientific thinking. Stoyan Djudjev not only introduced and taught the subject Bulgarian folk music, but through his highly qualified teaching and research activities he managed to raise to appropriate height and to prove the significance and the role of the subject Bulgarian folk music as one of the leading musical and theoretical subjects in the State Academy of Music.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 21-30
  • Page Count: 10