Иван Качулев - родоначалник на българската етноорганология
Ivan Kachulev - Pioneer of Bulgarian Ethnoorganology

Summary/Abstract: In the scope of theoretical and research activities in the music folklore science in this country, since the beginning of the 50-ies of the 20th century, the figure of the folklorist Ivan Kachulev, meticulously researching Bulgarian folklore instruments and establishes a solid ground for the development of the folklore organology, has been outlined. As a result of the numerous expeditions and observations, he reaches the conclusion of a summed up specificity of the music instruments in the different dialects in this country, dealing with the distribution, functions, structure, players, and the very nature of the instrumental music in its aspects of an independent performance and its connection to the vocal models. In his research, Ivan Kachulev also includes the role of the master craftsmen, eventually also the presence of generic traditions, materials, tools, methods of processing, which defines the various geographical areals, and the role of the specific instrument in it, as well as the historical dynamics. The folklorist is also an eminent compiler and author of a series of collections of folklore songs, also outlined for their scientific precision. One of the most important merits of Ivan Kachulev is cited to be his contribution to the defining of Bulgarian ethnoorganology as a separate part of Bulgarian music folklore science in general and the fulfilled predisposition for its further fruitful development in particular.

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