ARTA PSALTICĂ ÎN SOCIETATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ PRIN PRISMA ÎNAINTE-CUVÂNTĂRILOR DIN TIPĂRITURILE MUZICALE PSALTICE DIN SECOLUL AL XIX-LEA
THE PSALTIC ART IN THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOREWORDS INCLUDED IN THE BYZANTINE MUSIC PRINTED BOOKS OF THE XIXTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The first printed books with Byzantine music content, in Romanian language, appeared as a result of the work of Macarie the Hieromonk and Protopsaltes Anton Pann. On one hand, these books fulfilled a desideratum of Romanians, which was the chanting in the national language, and, on the other hand, these books include a foreword which can be useful in the imaging of that time society. The main goal of this paperwork is to prove that the Church was paying attention to the course of the world and contributed to the vision and the perpetuity of the Romanian identity, first of all with the theological books translated and printed in Romanian language and, secondly, with the translation of the Greek chants and shaping them in the same mold as Romanian. Therefore, by consulting the forewords, we observe that there was a series of issues that cross the whole XIXth Century, and these start from the lack of Byzantine music books for religious services and reach up to the necessity of a thorough training of both superior clergy and inferior clergy.

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