Мястото на Райна Кацарова в българската музикалнофолклорна наука
The Place of Raina Katsarova in Bulgarian Music Folklore Science

Summary/Abstract: Raina Katsarova - Kukudova was a real phenomenon in the sphere of Bulgarian music folklore science. She started her research activity in the initial period of Bulgarian musical folklore studies. In the 20s of XX century, as a collaborator of Vassil Stain, Raina Katsarova got interested in work on location as a necessary prerequisite for getting to know in detail the musical folklore values and an opportunity of creating a rich music folklore archive, which became the foundation of developing our musical folklore science. Her participation in collecting melodies and publishing the first capital collections with folk songs - “Folk Songs From Timok to Vita” and “Folk Songs From Middle North Bulgaria” excited her interest in the problem of classification of musical folklore materials, a problem in which she evinced her interest during her specialization in Czechoslovakia and Germany and which was subject to her publications. In reply to Zoltan Kodai’s interest in Raina Katsarova’s opinion, she published her paper “Classification of Folk Melodies in Bulgaria”. Taking the systematization of the songs in the collections of Vassil Stoin as a basis, she emphasized upon her preference for classification according to function and offered analytical methods of pre­ senting the folk melodies depending on metrum, rhythm, form, ambitus, mode as necessary components of the synchratic complex. Raina Katsarova was a folklorist of variegated interests, who managed to draw out basic laws in Bulgarian music folklore culture, thus initiating their study.

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