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About BuzAr

Storing music cultural heritage in digital format has become one of the most influential and productive ideas in the new millennium.

Buzarovski Archive (BuzAr) was established on October 15, 2012, as a digital collection of video, audio, photographs, books, papers, musical scores, and other artifacts related to Balkan cultures and traditions.

BuzAr is part of a broader continuum that includes the Macedonian Music Council (MMC), founded by Dimitrije Buzarovski in January 1997, and IRAM (Institute of Research and Archiving of Music), also established by him on September 4, 2000. This website continues the digital presence initiated with the mmc.edu.mk website, first launched in February 1997.

The collection is based on Dimitrije Buzarovski’s musical works, performances, video and audio recordings, digitization of cultural heritage, as well as musicological and ethnomusicological research.

The BuzAr YouTube channel features 12 playlists reflecting the archive’s content, with videos covering a wide range of events, genres, ensembles, composers, and performers. The MCMFS (Multimedia Corpus of Macedonian Folk Songs) integrates various digitized artifacts from BuzAr—including transcriptions, audio, and video—into composite presentations of individual songs from Macedonian cultural heritage.

BuzAr Archive is a non-commercial, scientific, and educational initiative. Users of its materials are expected to cite the Buzarovski Archive in any use or reference.

Collections

Digitised folklore collections

  • Firfov Collection (1,362 folk songs and dances)
  • Firfov Transcription Collection (383 transcriptions from Macedonian folk songs)
  • Badev Collection (359 songs)
  • Vidoeski Collection (3,600 minutes speech material, Macedonian dialects, folk tales, customs etc.)
  • Brzanov Collection (songs, speech and other materials, 68 transcriptions)
  • Turkish Makams and Usuls (319 transcriptions)
  • Penushliski Collection (3,300 minutes speech material, songs, presentation of folk instruments, Macedonian dialects, folk tales, customs etc.)
  • Linin Collection (761 transcriptions)
  • Music Tradition from Karadak Mountain (193 songs and dances; 64.38 GB .mov files)
  • Female Wedding Songs from Simnica, Gostivar Region (speech material and songs; 23.06 GB .mov files)
  • Kosovo Children's Play Songs Collection (1,281 play songs; 156 GB .mov files; 100 transcriptions)
  • Albanian Children's Play Songs from Polog Region (144 play songs from 169 traditional games; 53.89 GB .mov files; 73 transcriptions)
  • Hajri Demirovski's Notebook with Macedonian folk songs (123 songs with lyrics)
  • Multimedia Corpus of Macedonian Folk Songs (MCMFS)

Recordings

Concerts, documentaries and digital library

Audio and video recordings

  • 110 audio recordings from concerts
  • 5 videos from concerts
  • 4 music videos
  • Yeni Yol (Turkish folklore) video
  • Hajri Demirovski's Notebook with Macedonian folk songs video
  • 20 documentary videos including Gjorgji Donevski, Bapchorki, Kosturchanki, Kalistrat Zografski, Tempus in Macedonia, Ljubomir i Vera Brandjolica, Aleksandar Dzambazov, Zoran Dimitrovski, Jordan Canevski, Ivan Kocharov, Snezhana Anastasova-Chadikovska, Evushka Trpkova-Elezovikj, Endendijk Collection, Blagoja Deskoski, Zhivko Firfov, Lepsha Piperkovska, Goce Kolarovski, Rumen Dimitriev, Mihailo Kufojanakis and Orchestra of Folk Instruments of RTV Skopje
  • 9 IRAM Chronicle movies with 170 short documentary videos

Digital library

  • 16 published books by Dimitrije Buzarovski
  • Živko Firfov Transcriptions Collection Songs (8 books)
  • Books by others: 3 books, including a book by Trena Jordanoska on piano tuners in Macedonia and books by Damjan Buzarovski on the Buzarovski, Melovski, and Bundalevski family trees
  • Over 250 papers from IRAM international conferences
  • Over 50 master's theses and doctoral dissertations defended at UKIM FM
  • Buzarovski's papers and reviews

Dimitrije Buzarovski's music

Dimitrije Buzarovski's music is organised in folders consisting of scores (manuscript/engraved, digital scores and MIDI), audio, video, pictures (including posters, program notes, photos and other scanned materials) and texts (reviews, press and other information).

  • Compositions: 66 folders
  • Theater and TV music: 37 folders
  • Arrangements: 42 folders
  • Unclassified works: 11 folders