Reviving Ancient Customs in Maori Population of New Zeeland and Educating Youth in this Tradition through Modern Technology

Obiceiuri străvechi redescoperite la poporul maori din Noua Zeelandă şi educarea tineretului în această tradiţie prin tehnologia modernă

Author(s): Iosif Katona / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Education; haka; maori; marae; poi; traditional dance

The polynesian cultural traditions have exerted a great influence on a numerous theatre film directors. The traditional art, ancient customs as well as the ancestral language of the maori community from New Zeeland were forgotten because of historical vicissitudes of these lands. After the 1970’s reconciliations, the Maori natives gradually regained at all levels their freedom of expression. Today, the Maori community are rediscovering and relearning theirs language, culture and ancestral tradition, thanks to the new, tolerant educational system, modern electronic equipment, advanced information and communication resources

La congruența dintre câmpuri: Emoția umană și Tehnologia Un studiu analitic al operei Death and the Powers. The Robot opera de Tod Machover

When Human Emotion meets Technology:A study of Machover’s Death and the Powers, the Robot Opera

Author(s): Mihaela Buhaiciuc / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: opera; human emotion; Tod Machover; technology; Death and the Powers

In the year of 2013, various opera stages remain reticent to performing repertoire composed after the 1930’s. With very few exceptions of works written by local compatriots of respective regions, operas such as: Wozzeck, Lulu, The Turn of the Screw are barely or never heard in a live production. Performers themselves confine in the traditional mind and the old way of expression, which are unquestionably, vital for any artist’s professional existence. Nevertheless, a vast palette of emotional and mental experiences is missed and often, not understood. The grounds of this behavior are mainly charged to quick judgments such as: absence of melody, of emotions and difficulty in communicating with the audience in the new operatic repertoire. My study offers an assessment: that melody can be identified in the most unusual musical architecture of today’s composed opera; and that emotional delivery and communication in the singing art occur still through text, audio-visual, and now, as never before, through technology. In order to demonstrate this I have chosen one single opera, perhaps the newest, but certainly the most innovating of the 21st century, a masterpiece, that has been in the spotlight since its premiere in 2010 and whose music, libretto and performing production may seem controversial to some of the traditional-oriented performers and audiences. It is Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, the Robot opera. The article also highlights the importance of sustaining innovation in the opera as a need to naturally adapt to the new conduct of life.

Statistical Analysis of Intervalistic Patterns Using a Series of Softwares

Analiza statistică a tiparelor intervalistice prin utilizarea unei serii de programe

Author(s): Ercsey Ravasz Maria,Ercsey-Ravasz Francisc / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Statistics; interval patterns; distribution; midi; Sibelius; Midi to CSV; Xmgrace; C++

In this paper we present a series of softwares by which we can statistically analyze the distribution of intervals and successive interval patterns. This research aims to identify typical coherencies in interval use and successive interval pattern use in works of different composers, different genres, musical forms, style/period or instrumental idiom. Some of these softwares are already welknown, others less, and one of them was created specifically for the purpose of this research.

Educational Software for the Field of Music

Softuri educaţionale pentru domeniul muzical

Author(s): Oana Mihaela Bălan / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: educational software; necessity; positive impact

In the world of today the avalanche of information being provided with the help of the internet compels educators to adapt their pedagogical activities, by using all the technological resources available. Whether we speak about primary school students or university students, the perspective they have in relationship to their own development is a very lucid and precocious one. Due to the inexhaustible “scientific wealth” that the computer provides unconditionally, the current generations of children may become geniuses before they learn how to write. Does this phenomenon scare, condition or assist us?

Music Recordings Facilitated by Information Technology

Înregistrările muzicale facilitate de tehnologiile informaţionale

Author(s): Radoias Robert Daniel / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Music performance; electronic recording; IT.

Electronic techniques are revolutionizing and will continue to revolutionize the fundamentals of the field of music, especially in terms of the performing tradition of the last 30-40 years. Thus, the controversial phenomenon called Sergiu Celibidache, consisting in the refusal of commercial recordings, ends, one way or the other, in the face of the overwhelming impetuosity of the offers provided by the computer.

Poems

Gedichte

Author(s): Athena Charvonia / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: The Old Greek Roads; Some become Snowflakes; After a Hard Day; after; Horizontal and Vertical Views I; II.

This Greek poetess finds the footsteps of the former Hellene culture everywhere she goes. They have become a code for human experience on earth.

Dreams - harnessed to an Ox-Cart

Träume - vor einen Ochsenkarren gespannt

Author(s): Bogdan Bogdanović / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Lenin; Hurons; communal dreaming; brilliant utopias; Serbo-Russian ox-cart

Utopists like Lenin and the Australian Hurons knew that communal dreaming is a creative way to get out ideas. Theses days in former Yugoslavia, this ancient capacity seems to be harnessed to the brutal ox-cart of Serbo-Russian power politics. Text in four languages: Serbo-Croatian, French, German, English.

Interview with György Konrád

Interview mit György Konrád

Author(s): György Konrád,Hans-Henning Paetzke / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Budapest; "anti-politics"; civil disobedience; Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The writer and sociologist György Konrád is being questioned about his life and work and why he always returns to his home-town Budapest. His attitude of an engaged and therefore almost automatically dissident intellectual has had forerunners in three thousand years.

Epilogue - The New Walls

Epilog - Die neuen Mauern

Author(s): Karam Khella / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Berlin-Wall; new walls; wall between man and his reality; wall between human beings of different races and social backgrounds; the final victory of capitalism over socialism; Cuba; Lybia; Sudan; Iraque; Corea.

The down-fall of the Berlin Wall made way for new walls between people and peoples. Victorious capitalism seems to be in the process of preparing for a new, very big war.

The Cat and the National Consciousness

Die Katze und das Nationalbewußtsein

Author(s): Richard Wagner / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Rumanian stories; Klausenburg/Cluj; Hungarians; Germans; Rumanians; leftovers of communism; "Vatra Romaneasca"/"Rumänische Heimstätte"; economic crisis; Brassó; Ceausescu-time; national myths.

Actual report about Romania in 1994.

Uninhabitable!

Unbewohnbar, schreien sie, unbewohnbar!

Author(s): Hans-Henning Paetzke / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Poets; Western Europe; beings from a different planet; Hungary; Attila József; János Pilinszky; Gyula Illyés; Zsuzsa Rakovszky; etc.

Reflections about the different cultural ambience in Western Europe and Hungary.

The Poet - Dissendent- Myth and Demystification

Le Poète- Dissident- Mythe et Démythification

Author(s): Blaga Dimitrova / Language(s): French / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: The innocent poet; nature; Black Magic; politics and poetry;

There is a myth of the courageous poet who is a dissident against dictatorship. But how can he remain like this when he has slowly got himself used to accepting the small benefits of being able to publish and become famous?

Csontváry

Der sich verbergende Csontváry

Author(s): Géza Perneczky / Language(s): German / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Way of the sun; cosmology; seeing; Lajos Németh; messianic content of his philosophy of colours.

The extraordinary Hungarian painter Csontváry, impressionist and Nabi in a very unique way, was a philosopher and a visionary who painted totally unusual pictures against the dogmatism of the academies of his time.

Dreams - harnessed to an Ox-Cart

Snovi upregnuti u volovska kola

Author(s): Bogdan Bogdanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Lenin; Hurons; communal dreaming; brilliant utopias; Serbo-Russian ox-cart.

Utopists like Lenin and the Australian Hurons knew that communal dreaming is a creative way to get out ideas. Theses days in former Yugoslavia, this ancient capacity seems to be harnessed to the brutal ox-cart of Serbo-Russian power politics. Text in four languages: Serbo-Croatian, French, German, English.

Dreams - harnessed to an Ox-Cart

Dreams - harnessed to an Ox-Cart

Author(s): Bogdan Bogdanović / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Lenin; Hurons; communal dreaming; brilliant utopias; Serbo-Russian ox-cart.

Utopists like Lenin and the Australian Hurons knew that communal dreaming is a creative way to get out ideas. Theses days in former Yugoslavia, this ancient capacity seems to be harnessed to the brutal ox-cart of Serbo-Russian power politics. Text in four languages: Serbo-Croatian, French, German, English.

Come-back of the Engaged Intellectuals

Retour des intellectuels engagés

Author(s): François Fejtö / Language(s): French / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Down-fall of the Berlin Wall; Sartre; Camus; Malraux; Aragon; Milosevic; Médecins sans Frontières; prison of peoples; Finkielkraut; Bruckner; Manifest of Edgar Morin and others.

The question of whether or not Europe should interfere at the Balkan war has brought about the old species of the engaged intellectuals.

Dreams - harnessed to an Ox-Cart

Des rêves - attelés à une charrette de boeufs

Author(s): Bogdan Bogdanović / Language(s): French / Issue: 01/1994

Keywords: Lenin; Hurons; communal dreaming; brilliant utopias; Serbo-Russian ox-cart

Utopists like Lenin and the Australian Hurons knew that communal dreaming is a creative way to get out ideas. Theses days in former Yugoslavia, this ancient capacity seems to be harnessed to the brutal ox-cart of Serbo-Russian power politics. Text in four languages: Serbo-Croatian, French, German, English.

A new portrait of the metropolitan cardinal Alexandru Todea

Un nou portret al cardinalului mitropolit Alexandru Todea (1912-2002)

Author(s): Dan Ţăranu Vatra / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2006

Literary Chronicle

Cronică literară: "Gîndirea recentă": răspunsuri fără întrebări

Author(s): Sanda Cordoş,Alexandru Matei,Nicoleta Sălcudeanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2006

Keywords: Traian Ungureanu; Mihail Diaconescu; Florin Lazarescu; Daniel Cristea-Enache;

Poems

Triptic: Aura Christi, Vasile Baghiu, Michael Astner

Author(s): Vasile Baghiu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 08/2006