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Article: Khorovoto delo v Bulgariia (ot sredata na XIX v. do 1994 g.)
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- September 1, 1994
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Khorovoto delo v Bulgariia traces the origins and development of the splendid amateur choral singing tradition in Bulgaria in the fullest social context the author could assemble. Agapiia Balareva has gathered more details about the early times, from the 1830s to 1878, than anyone else before her, and she also tells of the struggles when the country was still under Ottoman rule and thus cut off from the West (until 1878), and when its Church was still under Greek control (until the 1870s). Balareva presents in these pages a social history of Bulgaria as reflected in the evolution of its amateur choral singing. Through its marvelous details, quoted from contemporaneous ...