Bulgaria is located in southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
Bulgarian Music
Bulgarian vocal music is traditionally performed by women. Two groups of singers or two soloists alternate and complement one another. Probably the most distinctive feature of Bulgarian music is its immense rhythmical and metrical variety. It is not unusual to find combinations of asymmetrical meters such as 5/8, 7/8, 15/8, or 17/8 with symmetrical meters or even with one another.
There is also a great variety in the scales. Diatonic scales predominate but in the Rhodope mountains, for example, pentatonic scales occur, and in Thracia chromatic scales with augmented intervals are sung (similar to the music of Classical Greece). Also, the intonation varies, and is quite different from the modern Western equal temperament. Depending on whether the melody moves up or down, an interval can augment or decrease by a quarter tone. (source: The Bulgarian Voices-Angelite)
Bulgarian Musicians
Bisserov Sisters
Cosmic Voices of Bulgaria
Ensemble Bulgari
Galina Durmushliyska
Georgi Petrov
Ivan Kolev
Ivo Papasov
Jony Iliev
Lot Lorien
Milen Slavov
Neshko Neshev
Pirin Ensemble
Salif Ali
Rumen Sali Shopov
The Bulgarian Voices-Angelite
Valeri Dimchev
Yuri Yunakov
