За една командировка на Райна Кацарова в Провадийско и Варненско
About a Trip of Raina Katsarova to the Regions of Varna and Provadia

Summary/Abstract: The trip of Raina Katsarova to 37 villages in the regions of Provadia and Vama resulted in 1350 songs written down in notes by her. After a thorough examination it was established that the songs were recorded in December 1929 and 1930. The songs were mostly of settlers from Asia Minor (Kodjabunar, Valgartsi), from Macedonia (Kostur and Vardar) and from Aegian Thrace (Odrin, Lozengrad, Malgar). The song melodies are authentic, with little ambitus and without a well-developed melodic line. That shows that the songs belong to a more ancient and less well-known layer of folklore. Their publication will excite great scientific interest as they were not presented in either of the two volumes of “Folk Songs of North-Eastern Bulgaria”.

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