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BULGARIAN CHANT - one of the chants Rus. Orthodox church. He became famous in Washington in the middle. 17 century The Bulgarian origin of the chant has not been established, because over the centuries-old period of the Turkish yoke and hegemony in the church. life of Bulgaria the Greeks nat. church. the singing was supplanted by the Greek, and the chorister. books destroyed. Among Bulgarian musicologists there is no unity in their views on B. p. Some consider it to be original Bulgarian (e.g. D. Hristov, P. Dinev), others consider it to be non-Bulgarian in origin and deny the use of its bolg. by the church (e.g. P. Sardarov). Chants with a title. "Bulgarian chant" are found in western Ukrainian. chorister books this gave rise to Rus. researchers claim that it is borrowed from the Danubian Slavs. By the type of melody B. p. markedly different from the znamenny. As for the Kiev chant, it is characterized by the symmetry of movement,easily fit into a 4-split size, tonal stability of tunes, the exact repetition of a melody in several. production lines, Bulgarian chant. From a manuscript of the late 17th century State Historical Museum. Singing collection, No 122, sheet 155 and turnover. lack of variats. development of motives. B. p. subordinated to the system of osmoglasiya, but the number of melodies is significantly inferior to the znamenny chant.