Кристина Япова: „Църковност и музикално мислене. С примери от творчеството на Добри Христов“
Kristina Yapova: Liturgicality and Musical Thought: Examples from the Work of Dobri Hristov

Summary/Abstract: Kristina Yapova’s book is dedicated to church music, examined through the prism of liturgicality. The author defines her research method as a “drawing into”. This is a research strategy that maintains the author’s (and the reader’s) point of view as the meaningful center of the research object. From this height, the contents of key concepts such as culture, aesthetics, truth and memory are realized and rethought. Liturgicality is examined as a place of connection between the religious person and music. From this methodological position, the author directs her attention towards the Orthodox Liturgy and Dobri Hristov’s liturgical music, which is the concrete focus of the research study. The book’s separate parts and chapters contain clear, continually developing and mutually enlightening ideas. In Part Two church music is presented in a system of coordinates along east-west and medieval-new era axes, while in Part Three these problems are examined in the framework of the Bulgarian spiritual space. Yapova succeeds in deciphering within the phenomena of composed church music its ongoing mission to be the music of the Church through its religious ethos, through its unity of music and text, and through the leitmotif of divine beauty. Thus the connection between liturgical-musical thought and method in her theory opens new horizons for research on Bulgarian music. Kristina Yapova’s book is an important achievement within contemporary Bulgarian musicology.

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