Musical traditions in the Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday Carols, harmonized by Gheorghe Cucu
Musical traditions in the Palm Sunday: Palm Sunday Carols, harmonized by Gheorghe Cucu

Summary/Abstract: Music has always been and will always be the artistic and theoretical area where the material force is transcended towards spirituality. Considered to be of divine origin and reminiscent of the Davidic psalms and of many other ancestral songs, music is, through its sacred genres that sanctify its beginnings, and, later, through the secular genres, an area with authentic aestheic virtues. The most important moments of the church year are also accompanied by specific songs which harmonize the being with the divine spirit. The Palm Sunday carols are eloquent songs in remembrance of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The music accompanies this time too, a defining moment of the Christian world, through varied and suggestive sounds. The carol, as a species of Romanian ethnomusicology, at this moment filled with sacredness, reveals a florilegium of songs, with real specificities of musical language. The Sunday Palm Carols, collected by Gheorghe Cucu, are a testimony of the musician's personality, close to his origins, to the Romanian village, to the customs and habits that, sometimes, remained unaltered in his being.

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