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The Culture of Bulgaria is deeply rooted in Bulgarian music. Bulgarian folk music is unique in its complex harmonies and highly irregular rhythms. These kinds of rhythms, also called uneven beats or asymmetric measures, were introduced to musicologists only in 1886 when music teacher Anastas Stoyan published Bulgarian folk melodies for the first time. This was a major historical landmark in the Culture of Bulgaria.
Each area of Bulgaria has a characteristic music and dance style. Bulgarian folk music inspired and was used by musicians of international repute like Kate Bush and George Harrison.

Bulgarian vocal style has a unique throat quality, while the singers themselves are renowned for their range. Their voices are low and soprano. The Bulgarian children love singing and everything artistic. Diatonic scales predominate but in the Rhodope mountains. For example, pentatonic scales occur, while in Thrace chromatic scales with augmented intervals (similar to the music of Classical Greece).
The intonation also 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. The different musical instruments are also a unique characteristic of the country which include Gaida (bagpipe), Kaval (rim-blown flute), Zurna or Zurla (another woodwind, similar to oboe typical among gipsi), Tambura (guitar-like), Gadulka (violin-like), and Tapan (large two-sided drum).

The Gaida of Bulgaria is worthy of its own subsection. In Bulgaria the Gaida has been a long symbol of the country and its heritage, and is one of the more well known instruments of the country.
The deep sounding Kaba Gaida of the Rhodope Mountains are superb . In the north, common of Gobrudgea and the Vlachs there is the Dzhura Gaida. Also in the Stranzha region there is the Stranzha Gaida. The bag itself is made of goat skin as is traditional, and most often the rims of the different parts of the instrument have a piece of horn on it. Dances have complex steps matching the rhythm, and are often fast. Most are circle-dances or line dances called Horo. But some of the dances can be performed solo or in pairs.

Although traditional music and dance are not popular among Bulgarian city youth, they are often performed at weddings, and generally countryside fests. They are also performed in Bulgaria and abroad by amateur and professional performing artists. Thus we can conclude that the Culture of Bulgaria is submerged in music and dance.


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