Някои методологически проблеми иа музикалната фолклористика
Some Methodological Problems of the Musical Folklore Studies

Summary/Abstract: Musical folkloristics should reconsider from a methodological point of view the means for registration, study and interpretation of folk music, as the devices of the West-European system of notation and theory do not correspond to the peculiar character of this music and to its modal character. As far as the professional musician and researcher is concerned, this reconsideration is associated with the necessity to overcome certain inertial mechanisms of evaluation, which have been implanted in his/her mind in the course of education not only by way of reasoning but by way of emotions, too. New methodological positions are required for the study of such phenomena of the musical folklore as, e.g.: the irregular metre, the sound- and object-symbolism of the musical instrument and its relation to the playing as the man’s privilege, etc. Finally, as an illustration, a brief analysis is carried out of one peculiar form of a wedding gong- and instrumental polyphony, in which the female singing and the male one are performed to different texts – a fact that brings this form close to the medieval bilingual motet.

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