Conceptual Representations of Byzantine Music in Contemporary Romanian Culture
Conceptual Representations of Byzantine Music in Contemporary Romanian Culture

Summary/Abstract: Romanian culture, understood in a general sense, in all its constituent elements, isintertwined with Byzantine culture since its dawn; the appearance of the two inapproximately the same historical period, their proximity, the orthodox faith assumedby the Romanian people are just some of the reasons why we cannot talk about thehistorical route of Romanian culture without taking into account the Byzantine culturalelements taken by it. This paper proposes a short presentation of the way in which anextremely important element of Byzantine culture, its religious music, manifests itselfin the Romanian culture as the latter perceives and theorizes it in contemporary times.

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