THE PLACE OF TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS AS AN ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE FOLK-SONG IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
Keywords:
vocal folklore, traditional instruments, learning process, humanitiesAbstract
In the research, I examine the different types of accompaniment of authentic and processed folklore
songs. I examine the need for different types, structures and combinations of instruments that accompany folk songs
and are based on the teaching and creation of a concert program.
The research aims to investigate how traditional or modern the accompaniment of folk song in the learning process
is. What musical instruments can the school offer, what are the conditions for the young performer when preparing
for the stage? Is the program appropriate in terms of complexity, age group and vocal level of the performer?
In Bulgarian folk music, different types of musical instruments are used to accompany the folk song. Some of them
are very old and have been present in the musical practice of our people since ancient times. Other types of musical
instruments have been imported to us from outside since unknown times, during a late historical era.
Unfortunately, today's art schools, as well as schools with advanced music studies, do not have scheduled hours for
rehearsals with the accompaniment of folk songs with a traditional instrument or orchestra. Every teacher is looking
for ways to implement this very important moment in the training of young performers. Varied and melodious, both
stylistically and dialectally, Bulgarian folk song, accompanied by original traditional instruments, developed its own
polyphony that met Western harmony in the 20th century. The isolation she found herself in was largely to her
advantage. Protected from the humiliating contamination of fun music and modern Western melodies, the Bulgarian
folk song accompanied by traditional folk instruments retains its original grandeur of its image.
Thanks also to the talented Bulgarian composers with refined musical taste and creative potential, they are liked and
appreciated by audiences and music critics all over the world. The stage presentation of the folk song with the
accompaniment of traditional folk instruments succeeds to a large extent to be a standard for imitation by the young
followers - schoolchildren, students, but also to preserve the authenticity of the spiritual experience. The diverse
sound palette, performed by traditional instruments as an accompaniment to the Bulgarian folk song, succeeds in the
most delicate and nuanced way in affecting the listener and enthralling its followers, tracing the path of successful
artists performing Bulgarian musical folklore. This is a good reason for us vocal educators to advocate the need for
the place of traditional musical instruments in the accompaniment of folk songs in the educational process, because
they always go hand in hand.
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