Светлана Куюмджиева: „Българска музика в Хилендар”
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva: Bulgarian Music in Hilandar

Summary/Abstract: After reviewing more than 100 music manuscripts on microfilms in Hilandar Research Library at the Ohio State University, USA, the author of the book Bulgarian Music in Hilandar Svetlana Kuiumdzhieva discovered and systematized a number of documents (sources and relics), connected to the Bulgarian sacred vocal practices from 18th and 19th centuries. The review appraises the significance of this source selection of potential constructive elements for reconstructing the Bulgarian national music history from the time when the idea originated on the Balkans (Bulgarian National Revival period). The isolated categories of Bulgarian sources in the book are: manuscripts of Slavic chants dedicated to Bulgarian saints such as St. Yoan Rilski and St. Petka of Tarnovo; copies of chants, labeled as “Bulgarian” (boulgarikon); manuscripts from Zograf Monastery (the Bulgarian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in Greece); and music sources from the Hilandar Monastery library, revealing links to Bulgaria and/ or Bulgarians. Appraising the selection as a successful, the review appeals to all researchers-medievalists from the Balkan countries to unite their efforts for discovering and preserving the sources of a thousand-year old rich musiccultural legacy of the region.

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