Музикална информация с един „клик“
One-click Music Information

Summary/Abstract: The twenty-first-century globalisation affects the existence, dissemination, retention and more broadly, the knowledge of music. In the course of this process some issues arise in relation to the accessibility, authenticity and synthesis of information about music. Further, they have to do with ethics, axiology and economy. In an information society, increasing numbers of people expect the needed information to be readily accessible online. Nowadays products are released faster, while activities are superimposed and run in parallel. This is the reason why databases become fundamental to a quick and synthesized reception of information, as well as to its dissemination and use. In order for the established, new or rediscovered musical knowledge to be properly conceptualized, the question should be answered as to the content and uses of musical terms in Bulgaria relating to history, theory, ethnomusicology, pedagogy, and performing arts. Terminology synthesizes and shows the most important specifics of the phenomena in different regions, cultural and musical layers, communities, and genres. The Bulgarian experience of compiling dictionaries and music encyclopaedias and the way paved by them towards the creation of databases has been traced. Databases created in Bulgaria and their types have been presented. The expansion of research areas in contemporary musicology and the need for an adequate use of their terminology has been analysed. Possible avenues for providing information about music in a globalising world using music databases have been considered. One of my goals is to offer guidelines for developing a dictionary of music in several fields: historical, geographical, theoretical, organological, genre-related, plus their application in creating music databases by means of employing multi-tier architectonics. An analysis of musical practices from different cultural and musical layers and regions of the world provides the grounds for offering a systematization of the terms in several main groups: art/compositional music; traditional music; pop music. Thus, every term becomes a keyword for the quick and efficient finding and absorbing of musical knowledge from the database. The terms have been defined depending on various parameters (historical, geographical, philosophical and religious, aesthetical; technical, technological, functional, organisational), which normally work as a cohesive whole in concrete practices.

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