Cântarea bisericească în Ardeal. Alba-Iulia şi Blaj
Church music in Ardeal. Alba-Iulia and Blaj. Hystorical overview

Summary/Abstract: Church music in Ardeal. Alba-Iulia and Blaj. Hystorical overview. By the Xth century at the end of the XIth century, religious life of the Romanians people was identical in all the aspects with their brothers of the south-eastern Carpathians. Through centuries of the XIth and XIIIth century, the church it come to grips with proselytisms trends. In Transylvania, the ecclesiastic songs have been transmitted from generation to generations orally. It was the only way for the ownership of musical knowledge to go on at that time. The orally of all the songs developed primarily due to lack of schools, the prints and manuscripts, and secondly because the Romanian people was a majority who did not had privileged by the Hungarian kingdom and later because of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The initiative of organizing Romanian Orthodox schools was the idea of the Serbian bishops, and then Vasile Moga and Andrei Saguna, Romanian bishops. The level of schools in Transylvania was quite modest. The first bishop who solved this problem concerning the musical orthodox education was Andrei Saguna. The bishop Andrei Saguna has sent a priest named Dimitie Cunţan for the mission to conserve the traditional Romanian music of Ardeal. He was well-known like a good expert in the liturgical music in Transylvania area. The songs which he pattern processed have now a new terminology in the ecclesiastic Romanian space: the songs of Cunţan.

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