Valenţe religios-morale în cântecele pentru copii din creaţia compozitorului Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac
Moral and religious valences in children songs created by the Romanian composer Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac

Summary/Abstract: Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac (1866-1928), a classic composer of children songs and a leading representative of the Romanian musical education, created a musical repertoire for students that is remarkable through its complexity, diversity, naturalness, simplicity and profoundness as well. From his entire creation I have selected for my study the moral-religious songs that can be found in the school textbooks and collections from the first half of the XXth century, as they offer us the possibility of opening new outlooks towards nowadays education. Thus, the presence of these songs make us notice the composer’s pursuits and visions regarding the role of music in education, an educational role of shaping characters, the hierarchy of values and of a sound behaviour as well. That is why, the moral-religious songs belonging to D. G. Kiriac’s work is meant to enrich not only the children songs’ repertoire, but also the students’ personality, beautifying their way of being and thinking. We consider that this step is necessary the more so as nowadays, music, including the musical education, is rather seen as a factor of entertainment, its educational dimension being minimized or even neglected.

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