Към информационния модел на музиката
Toward an Informational Model of Music

Summary/Abstract: When implementing an encyclopedic informational project about music, it is advisable to begin with an analysis of the concepts and terminology most frequently used by musicians and musicologists in public linguistic practice. These in turn must later be defined, clarified and unified in a single system according to generic features and spcies distinctions. This study shows an attempt to conduct a frequency analysis on numerous articles by Bulgarian musicologists in the journal Bulgarian Musicology published between 1999-2002, as well as classifications in online publications on BAMP (the Bulgarian Academic Music Portal: htt p://musicart.imbm.bas. bg). Various Universal Decimal Classifi cations (UDC) and other library classification systems for music were also analyzed. All of these classification systems require that the types of music be described according to the style (especially if the style is reported by the composer himself), as well as according to the musical techniques and technology used in the creation and organization of the sound structures. A study of websites with classification and categorizations of contemporary music, including Bulgarian music, clearly shows that the mixing of technological criteria in correlation with aesthetic criteria is a widely adopted practice. When fleshing out a modeled (systematic) definition of music with all its various genres, types, musical practices, and styles, in the end it appears that using audio technology (measurable) criteria for organization complements corresponding psychological attitudes and aesthetic meanings and messages in the corresponding musical organization. This article provides a summary and one possible list of several basic aesthetic categories in connection with the organization of musical sound that could serve as a starting point for contemporary analyses of the types and socio-psychological functions of musical-aesthetic messages in connection with their corresponding characteristic sound structures.

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