Източноправославна и богослужебна музикална практика и академизъм
Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Music Practices and Academism

Summary/Abstract: The specifics of the development of Eastern Orthodox monody on the Balkans is followed as well as its reflection (during XIV-XV, XVII-XVIII and XIX centuries) as “a living tradition”, remaining true to the archetype, which preserved up to the XX c. the Eastern Orthodox theological idea of “development”, different from the modem musical and historic awareness. The changes in the historical reflection of Orthodox music in Bulgaria are analyzed in relation to the national idea, connected with the process of its cultural transformation in the direction of Western Europe. The consequences of the specific entering of the Bulgarian Church and its liturgical music into the Modem Time are deduced, specifics that affect the introduction of teaching knowledge about church music and its history into theological and secular education. The necessity of cultural and historical as well as spiritual reflection of the historical development of music in the Eastern Orthodox European region, in which the transecendence of faith and the personal aspiration for “self-achievement in God” are preserved, is emphasized - specifics that influence the contemporary educational “academizing” - in degree and type, of the knowledge of the music in the Orthodox liturgy.

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