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Musica
Publishing House
was founded 25 years ago. Surveys have established that it has an over
80% share of the Bulgarian market of music-related literature, including
scores, performance research, theoretical and educational materials. The
company's production is subject to rising interest on part of foreign
publishers and distributors from Europe and the USA. That is mainly in
the area of pre-print operations for musical publications, complete
cycle of production of musical scores and foreign literature in
translation, distribution of Bulgarian publications to orchestras,
libraries and research centres, fairs and exhibitions. Specialized in
the area of sheet music and pedagogical publications of research and
popular books on music, the largest musical publishers in Bulgaria also
publish Bulgarian and foreign reference, historic literature and
fiction. Secondary and higher schools of music are provided with
learning and teaching materials in all theoretical disciplines,
including music exercises, collections, individual pieces, thematic
publications for all instruments, for voice and choirs, orchestra
scores. This is done through the successful combination of tradition
(reprints) with the quest for new aspects in music training literature -
new books by Bulgaria's most prominent musical pedagogues.
Over the past few years international contacts have become a main
priority of Musica Publishing House. They have resulted in the
publication of the unique work of Bozhidar Karastoyanov "Chants for the
Saints Cyril and Methodius in Neumatic Sources from the 12th - 20th
Century". This is the first publication in the world of these sources,
and it includes deciphers of the authentic musical artifact along with
transcripts to provide accessibility for contemporary performance.
Widening the thematic scope and aimed at popularization of Bulgarian
musical and interpreting traditions resulted in the publication and
translation to German of a book dedicated to singer Lubomir Panchev,
"The Bulgarian from the Vienna Opera" which was commissioned by the
Society of Friends of the Stattsopera in Vienna.
Musica Publishing House's latest publication is
the two-volume "History of Music", editor Marie-Claire Beltrando-Patier,
with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Department of Cultural and Scientific Development at the French Embassy
to Bulgaria, and the National Book Centre at the Ministry of Culture of
France. An encyclopedic survey which provides unique contact with the
musical heritage of West Europe, seen through the eyes of the
contemporary researchers.
An important part of Musica Publishing House's work is in the field of
widening its contact with foreign musical publishers. Along with
translations of foreign literature for Bulgarian audiences, this also
provides the world communities to gain knowledge of the achievements of
the Bulgarian composing school. The collections of study materials and
works by Bulgarian composers like P. Wladigerov, L. Pipkov, S. Pironkoff,
I. Spassov, M. Leviev, E. Tabakov, G. Arnaoudov and many others should
be noted here, which were commissioned by International Music Service,
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