CHURCH CHORAL SINGING IN HISTORICAL BANAT
CHURCH CHORAL SINGING IN HISTORICAL BANAT

Summary/Abstract: If some very well-documented treatises have been written about Romanian choral church music from Banat, which will also support the scientific research of some of the works that will be born according to this plan, instead of Serbian church music, an integral part of church choral music from Banat, we have too little data on in the Romanian language, thus feeling, over time, the lack of specialized discussions (be it biographies or analyzes of the work of Serbian composers, musicologists or systematizers) that would become bigger and more acute, deals in depth with this important aspect of church choral music in Banat. Moreover, about how the two branches first evolved separately, then together, and again separately from the 19th century, how they influenced each other, how they passed on to their descendants an almost unchanged heritage, there are too few writings and specialty studies, which led to the decision to address this topic. Studying the work of the first known musicologists, composers and systematizers of Serbian choral church music in the 19th and 20th centuries. century (I. Marinković, Kornelije Stanković and especially St. Stojanović Mokranjac) we believe that the academic treatment of the personalities and activities of these musicians as well as the scientific presentation of their contribution in the reading, saving, preserving and transmitting all data related to Banat church music, up-to-date from the point of view of musicological research, is more than desirable. The beginnings of the choral activity of the Serbs in the Romanian Banat can be found in the fourth decade of the 19th century, first in Timisoara (1836), with the establishment of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral Choir and the Serbian Singing Society, then in 1876. (according to some authors in 1896) Society of Serbian songs from Arad.

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