Muzica corală și locul ei în spațiul sacru liturgic românesc
The choral music and its place In the Romanian sacred liturgical space

Summary/Abstract: Currently, and at least in the Romanian Orthodox Church, for the convenience of classification and sometimes expression, when we talk about choral singing we refer, in particular, to the harmonic-polyphonic (or polyphonic-harmonic) singing performed by the choir in several voices, type of songs that began to be cultivated in Romanian churches since the nineteenth century - more decidedly in the second half of it - and which is usually clearly distinguished from the chant of a single voice, monodic, such as the song called "psaltic" or other regional variants, such as those in Ardeal, Banat, Bihor etc. For the problems we want to address further, however, it is necessary to deepen and, at the same time, broaden the notion of "choir". Choral singing only began to appear in the second half of the last century, beginning to manifest itself a little more timidly, with time, taking on an increasingly strong development. The Eastern musical spirit has now been removed from the Orthodox Church and the Western-specific spirit has penetrated.

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