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Bulgarian culture is a mix mostly of
Thracian,
Slavic and
Bulgar cultures, but there are
Byzantine,
Turkish,
Greek,
Roma (Gypsy) and other influences.
Social Conventions
Music
Main article: Music of Bulgaria
Bulgarian
folk music is unique in its complex harmonies and highly irregular rhythms. These kinds of rhythms, also called
uneven beats or
asymmetric measures, were introduced to musicologists only in
1886 when music teacher Anastas Stoyan published Bulgarian folk melodies for the first time. Examples of such beats are
5/8,
7/8,
8/8,
9/8 and
11/8, or composite ones like
(5+7)/8,
(15+14)/8 and
(9+5)/16 - (9+5)/16. Each area of Bulgaria has a characteristic music and dance style. Bulgarian folk music inspired and was used by musicians like
Kate Bush and
George Harrison.
Bulgarian vocal style has a unique throat quality, while the singers themselves are renowned for their range. Their voices are low and soprano, and the children love singing, and anything artistic. (
Orpheus is said to be from Thrace, a region partly in Bulgaria.) Diatonic scales predominate but in the Rhodope mountains, for example, pentatonic scales occur, while in Thrace chromatic scales with augmented intervals (similar to the music of Classical Greece). Also, the intonation varies, and is quite different from the modern Western equal temperament. Depending on whether the melody moves up or down, an interval can augment or decrease by a
quarter tone.
Musical instruments (also characteristic of the whole
Balkan region) include
gaida гайда (bagpipe),
kaval кавал (rim-blown flute),
zurna or
zurla зърна (another woodwind, similar to oboe typical among gipsi),
tambura тамбура (guitar-like),
gadulka гадълка (violin-like), and
tapan тапан (large two-sided drum).
The Gaida of Bulgaria is worthy of it's own subsection. In Bulgaria the gaida has been a long symbol of the country and its heritage, and is one of the more well known instruments of the country. There is in the Rhodope mountains the deep sounding kaba gaida. In the north, common of dobrudgea and the vlachs there's the dzhura gaida. Also in the stranzha region there's the stranzha gaida. The bag itself is made of goat skin as is traditional, and most often the rims of the different parts of the instrument have a piece of horn on it.
Dances have complex steps matching the rhythm, and are often fast. Most are circle-dances or line dances called
horo; but some are done singly or in pairs.
Although traditional music and dance are not popular among Bulgarian city youth, they're often performed at weddings, and generally countryside fiests. They are also performed in Bulgaria and abroad by amateur and professional performing artists.
Theatres
According to the Bulgarian Statistical Institute as of
2005 there were 75 theatres in Bulgaria (including
Opera and
Ballet houses) with around 30,000 seats altogether.
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