STILURI MUZICALE DE TRADIŢIE BIZANTINĂ DIN VESTUL ŞI SUD-VESTUL ROMÂNIEI REFLECTATE ÎN LUCRAREA ANASTASIMATAR ARĂDEAN
MUSICAL STYLES OF BYZANTINE TRADITION FROM WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ROMANIA REFLECTED IN THE WORK ANASTASIMATAR ARĂDEAN

Summary/Abstract: The traditional Byzantine music of western and southwestern Romania was a collective music, orally perpetuated as the folklore, a music in which no composers stood out, as they stood out in the orthodox musical culture of Moldova, Muntenia and Oltenia. Regional musical styles of Byzantine tradition were formed in these areas, through a long process of enclavisation for centuries. They are the result of the inter-influence of Byzantine music with the folklore and with the Western music culture imposed through the school. One of these sub-zonal styles from southwestern Romania is the style preserved in the Arad area, fixed on scores by the church school teacher Trifon Lugojan. Our present volume, entitled Anastasimatar arădean2, published in 2021 at Eurostampa Publishing House in Timişoara, is based on the repertory selection on criteria of representativeness of the church musical style of Byzantine tradition in the Arad area, made after the analysis of the anthologies of church musicwritten by Trifon Lugojan. For the first time in the south-west of the country, the musical notation of the Arad style is also made by transcribing in the usual psaltic musical notation in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the songs being written in two parallel systems of musical notation – psaltic and western.

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