Bulgarian Harmony: In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

ISBN-13: 9780367597856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Kalin S. Kirilov

Opis

There has been to date no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities and an in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the 1930s to the 1990s, wedding m

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Mapping the cultural terrain; Mapping the musical terrain; Chordal vocabulary and primary characteristics of the Bulgarian harmonic style; Harmony and accompaniment in village style; Harmony in Bulgarian wedding music: Trakiya’s dance and concert repertoire from the 1970s-1990s; Harmony in choral Obrabotki: choral arrangements and compositions from the 1950s-1980s; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography and discography; Index.

O autorze

Kalin Kirilov is Associate Professor of Music at Towson University, Maryland, USA. Kirilov received his BA from the Academy of Music in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and a PhD from the University of Oregon. A master of multiple instruments, Kirilov has performed extensively in Europe and toured the United States with Ivo Papazov.