Пътят на литургичния смисъл в неговата музикална иманентност
The Road of the Liturgical Sense in Its Musical Immanency

Summary/Abstract: The report is an attempt at examining the term “road” not according to its functional content, which includes passing through something from one point in time or space (cultural, geographic, etc.) to another, but according to the idea that brought it to life – the idea of movement, direction, coming near, and connecting. Conceived in this way, the road is embedded in the very essence of music. To describe this essence, the Pythagorean tradition has adopted the word “harmony” – a word that expresses not only some kind of connection, but also the process of connecting, not only the concordance, but also the way of concordance, not only the proportion, but alsothe movement of harmonization. It is generally accepted that the role of music in liturgical services is limited to doubling and enhancing the meaning of words by translating them into the language of tones. Starting from this position, the present exposition moves to the thesis that music has its own musical meaning and its own musical ability to guide man himself in the way of his own involvement in the liturgy – a thesis developed on the basis of two texts from the time of early Christianity.

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