Contents

ALMANAC
Issue 7 (2015)

Resonance of Bells in Bulgarian Creative Works – Access to Some Problems of Cultural Reception
Tomi Karklisiyski

I. MUSIC THEORY AND HISTORY

Style-Forming Tendencies in Russian Singing in the 15th – 17th Centuries
Boris Shindin

Classical Instrumental Romance in Mozart and Beethoven’s Music. Genre – Structure – Themе Relation
Snezhina Vrangova

Minuet’s Musical Secrets
Boris Napreev

Helmut Lachenmann’s Composition: Auditory and Body Sense
Angelina Petrova

Artificial Reverberation
Pavel Stefanov

Notation in the Software Époque
Wesselin Karaatanassov

Repetition: Research on Its Theoretical and Experimental-psychological Aspects in Music
Andrey Molchanov

II. PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

Articulation – One of the Fundamental Expressions of Olden Time Musical Instruments
Margarita Krysteva

“Diagonal Space” – Musical Effects and Solutions in the Piano Nocturnes by Dimitar Hristov
Ganka Nedelcheva

Anton Dikov’s Interpretation of Bartok’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2
Elena Dikova

Mendelssohn – Krushev: “Songs without Words”. Transcriptions for Cello and Piano and for Two Cellos and Piano
Atanas Krastev

Opera in Malta and Bulgarian-Maltese Relations in Opera
Andriana Yordanova

III. PEDAGOGY

Alternative Percussion at the Music Atelier
Petya Stefanova

IV. ACADEMIC LIBRARY AND SOUND ARCHIVE

Improving Music Higher Education Library Services
Ina Pavlova

V. DEBUTS

Hypotheses Regarding the Number and Contents of Philipp Nicolai’s Musical Works (Part 1)
Mila Naumova