Music in Bulgaria : experiencing music, expressing culture / Timothy Rice.
| Author/creator | Rice, Timothy, 1945- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Description | xviii, 119 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm + 1 sound disk (4 3/4 in.). |
| Subjects |
| Series | Global music series Global music series. ^A563337 |
| Contents | Two weddings in one day. An urban wedding ; A village wedding ; Explaining music ; The culture of music at Bulgarian weddings ; The interpretation of music at Bulgarian weddings ; More questions -- The past in present-day music -- A musical tour. The shop region near Sofia ; Thrace in the southeast ; The Rhodope mountains in the south ; The Pirin region in the southwest ; After the tour -- Making music yesterday and today. Koleda ; Kukerovden ; Easter dances ; Harvest songs ; Dances at village fairs ; Autumn housework ; Why are these traditions still performed at the beginning of the twenty-first century? -- Music and politics. A performance by a professional ensemble. Arranged choral music ; Arranged instrumental dancing ; Choreographed dancing -- Modernization and a new ideology come to Bulgaria ; New institutions for the new folk music ; Cultivated folk music ; New meaning for wedding music. Changes in the sound of wedding music ; The politics of wedding music -- From behavior to symbol to commodity -- Bulgarian music as world music. Bulgarian music hits the charts ; Appropriating Bulgarian music -- A new music for a new era. A new fusion of folk and popular music ; The roots of Popfolk ; The lyrics of Popfolk music ; Performances of Popfolk songs ; Popfolk as art, symbol, commodity, and behavior ; Musical change and musical significance. |
| Contents | CD track list. The Bulgarian wedding band Kanarite plays pravo horo -- Maria Stoyanova plays a slow song and ruchenitsa in a meter of 7 (2 [plus] 2 [plus] 3) at a Rom wedding in 1988 -- Bulgarian traditional two-voiced singing from the region around Sofia -- Thracian singing with glottal stops -- Zurna and tupan from the Pirin Macedonian region of Bulgaria -- Composition for chorus and orchestra by Phillip Koutev -- Popular arrangement of a folk song, "Ela dusho" -- Three-part shop singing from the village of Vrazhdebna -- Band of traditional instruments plays shopska ruchenitsa -- Band of folk instruments (gaida, kaval, gudulka, tupan) from the Thracian region playing daichovo horo in a meter of 9 (2 [plus] 2 [plus] 2 [plus] 3) -- Solo gudulka from Thrace plays a ruchenitsa in 7 (2 [plus] 2 [plus] 3) -- A slow song (bavna pesen) performed by the Thracian singer Radostina Kuneva accompanied on kaval by Georgi Zhelyazkov -- Rhodope song, sung by Maria Bebelekova, accompanied on large bagpipe (kaba gaida) by Vassil Bebelekov -- Two-part drone singing from the Pirin region -- Tambura playing a dance melody for makedonsko horo in a meter of 7 (3 [plus] 2 [plus] 2) -- Christmas (koleda) song in meter of 5 (2 [plus] 3) -- Carnival (kukerovden) melodies played on the gaida to the accompaniment of bells worn on the costumes of the masked male participants -- Easter (velikden) dance song in 7 (2 [plus] 2 [plus] 3) from eastern Thrace sung by Todora Varimezova -- Harvest song (zhutvarska pesen) from the Shop region -- Sitting song (sedenkarska pesen) from the Thracian region -- An arranged folk song sung by the choir of the Pazardzhik ensemble -- An arrangement of an instrumental suite for orchestra of folk instruments played by the Pazardzhik ensemble -- "Polegnala e Todora" (Todora was taking a nap), composed by Phillip Koutev -- An arrangement of krivo plovdivsko horo in a meter of 13 (2 [plus] 2 [plus] 2 [plus] 3 [plus] 2 [plus] 2) for solo kaval, played by Nikola Ganchev and an orchestra of folk instruments -- "Zaspala e moma" (a girl had fallen asleep), a song in folk style composed by Stefan Dragostinov and performed by the Phillip Koutev ensemble -- A pravo horo played by Ivo Papzov and his wedding band, illustrating new developments in the wedding band tradition in the 1980s -- A suite of tunes (incorrectly identified as ruchenitsa in Rice 1994, CD track 42) played by the wedding band Shumentsi at a music festival in the town of Stambolovo -- Music by Joe LoDuca for the opening montage of the television series "Xena, warrior princess, vol. 6," Varese sarabande records VSD-6255 -- Don Ellis's arrangement of smeseno horo ("Mixed dance") entitled "Bulgarian bulge" -- Kopanitsa in a meter of 11 (2 [plus] 2 [plus] 3 [plus] 2 [plus] 2) played on traditional instruments by a group of American women known as Medna Usta (figuratively, "Sweet voice") -- Recording of American women singing the Bulgarian song "Brala moma," composed by Stefan Mutafchiev -- Instrumental kyuchek in duple meter -- Popfolk song, "Every wonder for three days," sung by Boika Dangova -- Popfolk song, "Black Kolyo sat," sung by Extra Nina -- Popfolk song, "Zet zavrayan," sung by Ruslan Muinov -- Popfolk song, "Love is a cage," sung by Tsvetelina -- Popfolk song, "Do chikago," performed by Ku-ku Bend -- Popfolk instrumental, "I nazad," performed by Ku-ku Bend. |
| Abstract | This book presents a focused introduction to the rich and varied tradition of Bulgarian music. Taking readers on a tour of the country's musical landscape, it explores ways in which Bulgaria's rural traditions affect the expression and interpretation of its music and examines how Bulgaria's history has influenced its music over many decades. The book also shows how musical traditions have been preserved and have flourished despite the social changes brought about by the post-WWII era of industrialization, modernization, and urbanization. The author demonstrates how Bulgarian music--in addition to being an art and an entertainment--is deeply embedded in the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the country. He analyzes how this music has spread to other cultures and how it has made its mark on new forms of popular music. Brief lessons on how ethnomusicologists conduct their research are also included. Written in a lively style accessible to both students and general readers, this book features vivid eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with performers, and glossaries of Bulgarian and musical terms. Incorporating numerous listening examples and other activities that help readers learn to listen, sing, and dance to Bulgarian music, this volume is packaged with a 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-111) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003041943 |
| ISBN | 0195141474 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195141482 (pbk. : alk. paper) |