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The gathering and recording of the original, unison folk songs commenced at the turn of the 19th century. Across the country the texts and melodies were collected and documented by professional musicians and musicologists and were subsequently filed at the Ethnographic Department of the Bulgarian Scientific Academy in Sofia. Dobri Christov, Petar Dinev and Emanuil Manolov were among the first professional composers to use themes from the Bulgarian folk music in their works. They were also the first to compose part-song choir arrangements of the folk songs.

Filip Koutev was the pioneer within folk music in the period from the 50s till his death in the late 70s. Through his works he revealed the beauty of Bulgarian folk music to the public and to musicians, amateurs as well as professionals, in Bulgaria and abroad. He was the founder of the first national folk music ensemble, which fulfilled the idea of presenting folk music on the stage where music, singing and dancing was presented together as a live art form.

Songs like Dragana i Slaveja (Dragana and the Nightingale). Polegnala e Todora (Todora fell asleep), and Dimjaninka have become classics in the choir repertoire of Bulgarian folk music. Filip Koutev paved the way for contemporary arrangements of folk music: enriching the aesthetical and musical genius of folk music with the means of contemporary composition technique without changing the melodic and rhythmic form of the originally unison songs.

The numerous folk songs from various folkloristic regions in Bulgaria later constituted the basis for the musical works and choir arrangements of generations of composers such as Krassimir Kjurkchiiski, Nikolaj Kaufman, Petar Ljondev, Stefan Kanev, Christo Todorov, Stefan Moutafchiev, and others.
Thanks to their musical talent and aesthetic credo we hear the Bulgarian folk music today as unity of old and new, archaic and modern, showing the creative process of the national cultural development over the years.

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