Macedonian music. The soil of Macedonia, from the ancient period and through the century of the Middle Ages, as well as in the future historical excavation, significant musical events were played, relevant to the peoples that inhabited this country, but also for those of the neighboring countries. The musical past of Macedonia is insufficiently explored and studied. This is especially true for the time of the Middle Ages, when the Macedonian soil there were prominent centers of spiritual music, which created a number of valuable manuscripts with Byzantine and Byzantine-Slavic Necumatic notation. The image of musical life is not sufficiently reconstructed in the centuries of Turkish rule, including that of ⅹⅰⅹ c. – The time of the Macedonian national revival, as well as the decades between the two world wars. There are data on the rich musical life in Macedonia and before the arrival of the Slavs in these areas. In its cultural development, they also accepted part of the legacy of the indigenous people in this part of the peninsula, as well as elements of ancient tribes living in this geographical area. The most significant events in the medieval period are related to the creation of Slavic literacy, established by the SVV. Cyril and Methodius, thus creating conditions for development and church singing in Slavic language, through the activity of the SVV. Clement and Naum Ohridski and numerous students from Clement’s school. In Clement’s rich handwriting, many musical manuscripts were located, and Clement himself took great attention to the church singing in the education of the clergy. Cyril Macedonian, Placad for Opera “Goce” (1958) after the collapse of the Samuil Kingdom, the Ohrid church institution was removed of the rank of Archbishopric. The worship service in Ohrid and other Macedonian centers took place in Greek, and most of the manuscripts from Clement’s collection were destroyed, while the most beautiful of them were translated into Greek. From that period of science, especially wealth is Ohrid Necumatic manuscripts, created in ⅺ-ⅹⅳ c. In Greek, from which most interesting waiting for detailed music processing. With the oral transmission of tradition in the people church singing, elements of the domestic folklore were preserved, and although in reduced scale, Slavic music literacy continued to be cherished in some monasteries on the ground. Among the small Slavic manuscripts of that period that fragmental contains Nevomatic Signs for Singing, the Bitola Trip of ⅹⅰⅰ c. and the so-called. Bologna Psalter of ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ c., Created in the Ohrid village of Flat. It is the time of the most prominent Byzantine musician and composer, a reformer of spiritual music and the Nevomatic Scripture, Jovan Kukuzel, Macedonian Slav, born in the Debar region. Its extensive work, according to some surveys, also contains the elements of the traditional folk singing of the Macedonian Slavs. The next period is characteristic of the discontinuity that arose in the written musical creation of Slavic language. The most significant stage in the time of Turkish rule is ⅹⅰⅹ c. The liturgical act enriches with their own stray domestic authors (Kalustrat Zografski, Joan Harmosin Ohrid, Dimitar Zlatanov-Gladori, Naum Miladin, etc.). At that time it comes to the appearance of the so-called. City song, under the influence of Western European musical culture and literacy, to the first melographed folk songs, harmonizations and creative attempts. The most prominent author from the end of ⅹⅰⅹ and the beginning of ⅹⅹ c. Is Atanas Badev (1860-1908), Austrian Liturgy, Processings on folk themes, etc. In the time between the two world wars, there is a relative modernization of music life: numerous choral societies are formed, music-scenic performances are played and musical teaching improves. Then the activity and the oldest generation of modern Macedonian musicians and composers, who will realize the most significant works in the postwar period of Macedonian music. It takes place in conditions of sustained unobstructed cultural growth in the Republic. Immediately after the liberation of Skopje (24th ⅺ 1944), a symphonic orchestra was established, which then grows into a Macedonian philharmonic. In December and.G. The secondary music school opens. The first opera representation, which marked the beginning of the activity of the Skopje Opera, was performed at 9. ⅴ 1947. In the MNT. The founders of all professional institutions and numerous amateur music collectives are: ST. Gaidov (1905-1992), J. Firfov (1906- 1984), T. Scalovski (1909-2004), TR. Prokopiev (1909-1979) and P. Bogdanov-Khkon (1913-1988). On a creative plan, they promote choral literature, and some of them, over the coming decades, also engage with larger vocal-instrumental works. In addition to them, other authors and musical artists participate in the first creative and organizational activities. In the middle of the fifties of ⅹ c. There is a new generation of composers and musical artists from all profiles, educated on the music academies of the former state. The authors of this creative circle open new stylish directions and enrich Macedonian music with many chamber, symphonic and musical-scenic achievements. Since the beginning of the seventies of the century, the musical research of the musical past begins, and a series of associates of the Institute of Folklore “Marko Cepenkov” give precious contributions in the study of the Macedonian music folklore. The following generations of music authors, educated at FMU in Skopje and other centers, continue the efforts of the predecessors, addressing the folklore idiom through some kind of variants, appropriate to the current currents in musical creativity. From the middle of ⅹⅹ c. Skopje is a significant musical metropolis with rich events at the concert podium and the opera scene, where prominent domestic instrumental and vocal soloists and conductors and world renowned tourists are performed. Musical festivals are held with international reputation (Ohrid Summer, Interfest in Bitola), as well as festivals of entertainment, folk and jazz music, with well-known world interpreters and confirmed authors and groups in all genres and stylish orientations. Dr. O.
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