Bulgarian music is part of the distinctive Balkan musical tradition and uses a wide variety of traditional instruments. Traditional Bulgarian vocals are described as "open-throated" and focus the voice in a way that allows it to carry over long distances. Some common traditional Bulgarian instruments include the gadoulka (a stringed instrument without frets), the kaval (a woodwind instrument), the gaida (bagpipe), the tapan (drum), and the tamboura (a stringed instrument). Modern Bulgarian music has also incorporated more modern dance styles and instrumentation.

2. Music of Bulgaria
Bulgarian music is part of the Balkan
tradition,
which stretches across Southeastern
Europe,
and has its own distinctive sound.
Traditional Bulgarian music has had
more international success, due to
the breakout international success of Le
Mystère
des Voix Bulgares, a woman's choir that
has topped world music charts across

3. Bulgarian vocals are said
to
be "open-throated",
though this is
somewhat of a
misnomer. Singers
actually
focus their voices in a
way that gives the
sound a
distinctive "edge", and
makes
the voice carry over long
distances.

4. Bulgarian music uses a wide
range of instruments.
More modern style
instruments are often usedin the
more modern dance music that was
an offshoot of traditional
village music.

5. Gadoulka is a Slavonic stringed instrument
without a fingerboard as it is in the current
violin. Strings are not with one and the same
length and the same height. The first string
is the lowest, the second is longer and
higher and the third is the highest. Usually
gadoulkas have three of four strings. In
some there are further, thinner metallic
strings conforming to the tones, which are
played on the instrument with fingers. The
folk gadoulka player calls these strings
under-sounds that make resonance.

6. The kaval is one of the most
diffused musical folk
instruments used very
much from the Bulgarians
long time ago still now. It's
used in whole Bulgaria but
specially in Thrace and
Dobrudja. The technical
construction of the kaval
from all of the kinds is the
same. They differ only in
the length of the pipe.

7. The gaida is an instrument which
is used from all European nations. It's
composed from the following parts:
gaidunitsa, ruchilo,
duhalo, glavini and meh. Gaidunitsa is
the most important part of the
gaida and is a kind a pipe
with eight holes for the
fingers, seven of them which
are on the front side and the
eight hole is on the back side of the pipe.

8. The tapan which is used in
Bulgaria has elementary structure.
His body and hoops are wooden and the
tighten of the skins is made
with strings. It has really small
diameter (from 50 to 60 cm).
The tapan is beaten form the one side
with a big wooden kiyak and from the other
side - with a thin osier,
with which is played the part
of the small drum, which the
Bulgarians don't use in the folk music.

9. The tamboura in comparison
with the other musical
folk instruments is not so
diffused as gadoulka.
There are tamburas with
the different extent very
often in the region of Raslog,
Gotse Delchev and others.
All tamboura's strings are metallic
with one and same thickness
and are puled with a plectrum,
which often is called with
the Turkish name "tesane".
There are tambouras with two,
three, six and eight strings and
other with twelve.

11. General Secondary School “Hristo
Botev” - Aytos
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