The Pastoral in Adrian Pop’s Les voix de la nuit/Vocile nopții
The Pastoral in Adrian Pop’s Les voix de la nuit/Vocile nopții

Summary/Abstract: This study proposes an analytical approach of Adrian Pop’s Les voix de la nuit/Vocile nopții from the perspective of its pastoral character. One of the most important topics in literature, the pastoral is an old and enduring cultural genre promoting the primitive simplicity, feelings and freedom, the innocence and the sublime, the serenity and the melancholy, the eternal love and the supreme beauty of nature. All these features receive a specific vocabulary of musical gestures, such as long pedals, consonant harmonies, wave-like movements, slow harmonic rhythm, simple melodic contours, etc. The analysis of Pop’s work searches for the pastoral signifiers in both the music and the poems set to it, belonging to French Romantic writer Alfred de Musset and Romanian symbolist author Alexandru Macedonski.

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