Attempts are made for its preservation through teaching the traditional performance style and repertoire to younger singers, amateurs and professionals. The contemporary state: The multipart singing in Middle West Bulgaria is nowadays a relict practice, which is kept in a little number of villages, mostly by mature and older women. The antiphony singing is called na otpev, na otpyavane, and the two groups are called cheti, tri po tri.įunctions: The multipart singing is practiced in the following situations: at calendaric and family rituals (ritual multipart songs) at harvest and working-bees (labor multipart songs) at horo (feasting multipart songs). The performers of the lower voice are called pomagachki, slagachki, vlachachki - they pomagat, slagat, vlachat, buchat.
The performer of the upper voice is called okachka, izvikuvachka, vodachka - she oka, izvikuva, vodi, grachi, kreka, seche. Local terminology: There is a folklore system of terms naming the functions of each voice and its performers. Another ornamental detail is the provikvane (a glissando-like downward movement of the voice from an upper tone), which may be performed by the whole singing group.Īccording to their metro-rhythmic organization the multipart songs in this region can be divided into non-measured and measured in various measures (2/4, 5/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 10/8). One of its typical features is the tresene (an ornament resembling a tremolo vibrato), performed by the upper voice. The multipart singing in Middle West Bulgaria has a specific style of ornaments. Crossing of the upper and the lower voices is not typical for the region, but may be found in some settlements. The second is the basic harmonic and melodic interval in the construction of the multipart songs. In some cases the lower voice sings the lyrics together with the upper one in other, it sings the sound at a single tone, instead. The lower voice is constructed as static (mono-based) or fluctuating (deviating for a moment down to the subtonium) bourdon. Structure: The upper voice performs the melody in small diapasons - of two, three and rarely four tones. The singers are divided into two groups of three (sometimes more) singers performing antiphonally (the same melody is performed by each of the two groups, first by one and then by the other). The performance is without accompaniment. In particular settlements in the Sofia region (the village of Bistritsa, for example) there are cases of three-part song tradition - performing of bucheni songs. The melody voice is sung by one singer and the bourdon voice - by two or more. Rarely, in single cases, there are men groups performing two-part songs. Performers: Predominant is the female two-part singing.
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