Rositsa Draganova
Education
1981–1986 – National Academy of Music „Prof. Pancho Vladigerov“, Master’s degree in Musicology.
1989–1992 – Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Doctoral studies.
Occupation
1993 – 2025 – Music teacher, Lycée français “Victor Hugo” – Sofia.
1995 – Research Fellow (after winning a competition) at the Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2008 – Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor) at the Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2021 – Professor at the Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Joined the Institute of Art Studies in
1995 – Research Fellow (after winning a competition).
Major Publications
Monographies:
Draganova, R. Music making. Aspects. Sofia: Institute of Art Studies – BAS, 2007 (in Bulgarian).
Draganova, R. Contemporary terminology and music pedagogical practice. Dictionary of music for the student. Sofia: „Mars 09“, 2013 (in Bulgarian).
Draganova, R. Music in the Bulgarian School at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century. Sofia: Institute of Art Studies – BAS, 2020 (in Bulgarian).
Draganova, R. Musicians-enlighteners in the Post-liberation era. Karel Macháň, Georgi Baydanov. Sofia: Institute of Art Studies – BAS, 2024 (in Bulgarian).
Articles:
Draganova, R. MP3 or on the changing attitudes towards music making and listening (one non-specific example). – Bulgarian Musicology, 2001, № 2, p. 111-116 (in Bulgarian).
Draganova, R. Diachrony and the Model of Contemporary Bulgarian Musical Culture. Bulgarian Academic Music Portal, 2004. <http://musicart.imbm.bas.bg/p/en_draganova1.html>
Draganova, R. On the change of paradigms, music making and elementary music pedagogy – practice and modernity. – Bulgarian Musicology, 2007, № 2, p. 39-69 (in Bulgarian).
Draganova, R. The Lullaby as a Subject of Musical Terminology. – Bulgarian Musicology, 2013, № 3-4, p. 134-139 (in Bulgarian).
Draganova, R. The Lullaby – Traditional and Popular Examples from the European Past (An Attempt to Compare Ethnological Peculiarities). In: Art Readings 2018. Institute of Art Studies, 2019, p. 523-533 (in Bulgarian).
Conferences
Draganova, R. For a notebook on „musical singing“ from the 1935/36 school year (in Bulgarian). VII Academic Spring Readings. National Academy of Music „Prof. Pancho Vladigerov“, 2017.
Draganova, R. Main views on music education in Bulgaria at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries (in Bulgarian). Pedagogical education – traditions and modernity. University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. Cyril and Methodius“, 2019.
Draganova, R. About the first Bulgarian music magazine „Gusla“ (in Bulgarian). VI Scientific Forum for Arts/XVII Young Scientific Forum for Music and Dance. New Bulgarian University, 2022.
Draganova, R. Data on music history in the first Bulgarian music dictionaries (in Bulgarian). Art Readings, New Art Module. Institute of Art Studies – BAS, 2024.
Scientific supervisor of 2 full-time doctoral students.
Awards
Award for musicological creativity „Book of the Year 2021“, category "Scientific monograph" ("History of Music"), Union of Bulgarian Composers.
Award for musicological creativity „Book of the Year 2024“, category "Scientific monograph" ("History of Music"), Union of Bulgarian Composers.
Main areas of scientific research
Theory and history of general musical education, music pedagogy, aesthetics of music, theory of musical culture, information models in musical culture.
Research related activities
Author of music textbooks for secondary education.
