Genul cromatic în cărțile tipărite de Macarie Ieromonahul
The Chromatic Genre in the Books Printed by Macarie the Hieromonk

Summary/Abstract: For the history of the Byzantine music in Romania, the name of Macarie the Hieromonk is synonymous with the printing of the first books of ecclesiastical music written in Romanian: Theoreticonul, Anastasimatarul and Irmologhionul, published in Vienna in 1823. The given paper aims at presenting the chromatic genre in all the above mentioned volumes, starting from the manner in which the theoretical aspects have been presented in Theoreticonul and continuing with the research of the content of the melodic formulae out of which the chants of the chromatic genre are composed in these collections. The comparative analysis between both the initial formulae and those pertaining to cadence from Macarie’s Anastasimatarul and the original Greek formulae by Petru Efesiul emphasize the importance a language bears on the structuring of the melodic discourse, but also the contribution of the Romanian psalm singers to the perpetuation of the Byzantine tradition.

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