Contents

ALMANAC
Issue 9 (2017)

I. GREAT NAMES AND TRADITIONS
OF NAM “PROF. PANCHO VLADIGEROV”

The Unknown Ghena Dimitrova – Methods and Practices in the Opera Prima Donna’s Pedagogical Work
Gabriela Georgieva

II. THE MUSIC AND CULTURE
IN THE SHADOW OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

The “Rethought” Shostakovich, in the Musical Research from the 80s of the 20th Century, Until the Present
Boryana Mangov

The End of The Symphony and the Last Man (Shostakovich’s Fourth Sympony’s Anti-Utopia)
Natasha Yapova

Sketches of Bulgarian Ideological Music Censure (1945 – 1959). The Administrative Net of Bulgarian Music Institutions
Angelina Petrova

Managing Peoples’ Amateur Music and Art Related Activities in Bulgaria, Immediately Before the Creation of the Peoples’ Art Central Home (1948 – 1954). What is a “Subor” [a national fair] and How to Organize a “Celebration”
Goritza Naydenova

III. MUSIC THEORY AND HISTORY

Harmonic Practice in Debussy’s and Schoenberg’s Early Works: A Reflection of Divergent Scholastic Traditions?
Violaine de Larminat (University for Music and Performing Arts – Vienna)

Die frühe Harmonik von Debussy und Schönberg: Spiegel unterschiedlicher Lehrtraditionen?
Violaine de Larminat (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst – Wien)

Classic in Form, Formalist in Content? Konstantin Iliev’s Sonata Form and Dodecaphony in his Second Symphony
Patrick Becker (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts)

Penderecki’s Polish Requiem – a Work in Progress as an Answer to History
Petya Tsvetanova

New Sound Concept in Sonoric Music in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Nadezhda Todorova-Radeva

16th Century Lute Intabulations. An Attempt to Define Concept and Notion
Yavor Genov

Writing a composition experiment – a compound mirror fugue
Sabin Levi

The USSR State Social Order [Placement] as a System of the Organization of Socio-Cultural Activity in the 1930s
Irina Reznik (Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Russia)

Государственный социальный заказ в СССР как система организации социокультурной деятельности в 1930-е годы
Ирина Резник (Уральский федеральный университет имени первого президента РФ Б. Н. Ельцина, Россия)

IV. PEDAGOGY

Working With the Score – Basic Theoretical and Practical Aspects. Characteristics of the Process of Initial Reading and Analysis of Scores for Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Yavor Gochev

Water in the Music Pedagogy Practice
Petya Stefanova, Pavel Stefanov

V. PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

J.B. Cardon’s Role in History of the Russian Harp School
Nadezhda Pokrovskaya (Novosibirsk State Conservatory „M. I. Glinka“, Russia)

О роли Ж. Б. Кардона в истории русской арфовой школы
Надежда Покровская (Новосибирская государственная консерватория имени М. И. Глинки, Россия)

The Significance of the Russian Pianist School for Building Keyboard Culture in the Far East Countries (China, Korea, Japan)
Sergey Eisenstadt (Far Eastern State Institute of Art, Russia)

Значение русской пианистической школы для становления фортепианного искусства в странах Дальневосточного региона (Китай, Корея, Япония)
Сергей Айзенштадт (Дальневосточный государственный институт искусств, Россия)

Micro-rhythm’s Asymmetrical Game as a Prerequisite to Achieving Natural Procedurality (Continuity) in Scryabin’s Études op. 42
Atanas Kurtev

“Dialogues With Silence” (Concerto Piccolo № 6) for Clarinet and Violoncello by Petar Petrov. Interpretation Ideas and Ensemble Problems
Rosen Idealov

“Petruna’s Metamorphoses” for Two Pianos by Georgi Kostov. Interpretative Difficulties in the Work and Executive Guidelines
Lilia Kostova

VI. DÉBUTS

Hypotheses Regarding the Number and Contents of Philip Nikolai’s Musical Works (part 3)
Mila Naumova

Scope and Perspectives Related to Distribution of Sound Recording Products in Network Environment
Petar Kostov

Early Sound-Recording and Sound-Reproducing Apparatus Functioning as Electronic Music Instruments
Ani Svinarova

VII. ACADEMIC LIBRARY AND SOUND ARCHIVE

NAM’s Music Library Activity – Providing Information in the Music Process and the Increasing Students’ Information Culture
Elissaveta Petkova

Information Literacy – an Indispensable Element of the Education Process
Yordanka Deyanova