2. Bulgaria is a relatively small in
territory, but it contains many musical
folklore regions.
People have get different customs
and costumes, talk different, dialects,
sing different songs, play different
instruments and play different folk
dances in these regions.
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5. According to the legend in the Rhodope Mountains lived the
Thracian poet and musician Orpheus. With his unusual songs he
tamed the wild animals and made the nature listen a attentively to
his music.
6. The Rhodopes melody is vibrant sweeping and
endearing. The style of the Middle Rhodopes is the
purest where the folk song sounds undyingly even
to this day.
7. Valya Balkanska song "Izlel Delyu rebel" is an
occasion for national pride, its record has been
included in the Golden Record since 1977 into space
by two U.S. Voyager spacecrafts.
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9. The folk music of Thrace is beautiful and expressive.
Its musical folklore is rich and diverse. Calmness and
beauty sounds in its folk songs, in the tunes of its
wooden flutes.
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11. The region of the Strandja mountain has got its
typical sounding in the songs and especially in the
dance folklore..
12. Many of the folk danced in this region have got a
ritualistic character. They involve a barefoot
dance on smouldering embers, performed by
nestinari.
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14.
15. The ethnographical region of the Pirin Mountains is
situated in south-western Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian folk dances are under influence of the
dances of the neighbour peoples or their settlers on
the territory of Bulgaria.
16. Many of the dances in
this region trace their
origin to Aegean and
Vardar Macedonia, for
example.
17.
18. In character, temperament, language, and in the folk
traditional the shopps (peasants of the Sofia district)
are guite different from the Thracians.
19. The jocular with quick temperament, witty
and resourceful shopp has created
musical folklore that corresponds to his
qualities.
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21. The Dobrudja It is characterized
occupies the with its rich and
north-eastern various musical
part of Bulgaria. folklore.
22. The Dobrudja dances
have got specific
style of their own,
which is
characterized with
good mood, with the
participation of the
both arms and
shoulders.
The Dobrudja
folk dances are
closed,
is semicircle
or straight
ruchenitsa.
