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Teodora-Ilinca Mureșanu, Saint Roman Melodul, „Dulcele Cântăreţ” - Life and Opera, Cluj University Press Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2020
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The process of secularization of music written for the needs of the Catholic Church intensified throughout the eighteenth century, reaching its culmination at the end of it. Particularly susceptible to the influence of secular music was the concertato trend, in which composers very often emphasized elements of the Neapolitan and Venetian styles. Adopting the patterns, which were unfamiliar for sacred spaces, led in consequence to the loosening of the relationship between music and both the significance and the time course of the liturgical action. The escalating crisis of Catholic music provoked a reaction from both the Magisterium of the Church and the secular rulers who were guided by Enlightenment ideas. However, the managed reforms did not contribute to the improvement of the situation; numerous statements by outsiders: publicists, press editors, music theorists and composers are proof of it. They expressed their observations in various types of documents: polemical publications, satires, reports and journals from travels around the countries of Europe at that time. Reading these sources provides valuable information on the real state of Catholic liturgical music at the end of the eighteenth century.
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The musical culture of the Bernardine Order is still quite a new issue in Polish musicology. In the 18th and 19th centuries, in most of their convents bernardines performed a monophonic repertoire, and sometimes also polyphony consisting of parallel thirds and sixths (canto fratto repertoire). Against this background, the musical life of the convent in Budsław (currently in the territory of Belarus) attracts our attention. In this convent, in 1756 Barbara Skorulska founded a musical chapel that was organised as a school of music. A number of students of this institution changed, fluctuating between 12 and 20, all of them coming from poor noble families from nearby area. The history of the chapel, analysed in the following article, is a unique example of such a musical organisation in bernardine convents so far.
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In the tradition of the Catholic Church, music is an indispensable and integral part of its solemn liturgy. This statement is a reminder of a centuries-old belief in the unity of these two realities. Over the centuries, various causes have resulted in periods of better or worse condition of liturgical music. The second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century were considered a time of crisis. It manifested itself primarily in the low level of education and carelessness of church musicians, as well as the lack of appropriate musical literature and drawing on secular models. In response to these phenomena, the Allgemeiner Cäcilienverein society was founded in 1868. This movement brought together clergy and laity concerned about the state of contemporary church music. Particular emphasis was placed on education. For this purpose, collections of music literature, textbooks and magazines began to be developed. One of such items is Bernhard Kothe’s Musikalisch-liturgisches Wörterbuch dictionary published in 1890. It is an organized collection of information presented in the form of basic entries with their descriptions, which gives it the form of a lexicon. It contains not only general music and liturgical knowledge, but also the author’s thoughts on the ministry of a church musician.
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Balkanizam se može definirati kao "diskurs kojim se stvara stereotip o Balkanu kao području nižeg civilizacijskog stepena u odnosu na Zapadnu Evropu˝. Pojam je to Marije Todorove kojim je opisala kako Balkan ˝funkcionira kao drugost Zapadnoj Evropi, označujući ne samo raspad političkih jedinica nego i povratak primitivizmu i barbarstvu, odbijajući se podvrgnuti civilizacijskome utjecaju Zapadne Europe.˝ Inspiracija za teoriju balkanizma dolazi iz koncepta Saidova orijentalizma, a koji se odnosi na samodefiniciju Evrope i Zapadne Amerike kao prema nečemu suprotnom od svog orijetalnog drugog. Todorova opisuje balkanizam ne kao oblik orijentalizma već kao neovisnu konstrukciju koja ima veze s reprezentacijom Balkana: Iako je balkanska regija geografski neraskidiva od Evrope nemoguće je ne primjetiti kako je ona kulturološki građena kao druga. U svojoj knjizi Imaginarni Balkan Todorova piše o tome kako je Balkan često služio kao spremište negativnih karakteristika na kojima je izgrađena pozitivna slika sofisticiranih "Evropljana". (Todorova 2015.: 22)
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Since the beginning of the Church, chant has played a pivotal role in its liturgic and communitarian activity. Throughout time, chant has constituted an efficient mechanism of Christian education because of its eminent theological message of ingraining a cult life of praying, being also an instrument for combating heresy and every other teaching that is strange to the Christianity found in the Church and to the Christian community. By selecting and substantiating certain elements of the profane through the minds of the Holy Fathers, the Church managed to create new musical and literary forms in order to express its teachings. The Romanian Church assumed the holy tradition of the Eastern Church by preserving and harvesting it up to present day. Education in Romania was initially developed and carried out in Church, and the singers and clerics of the church were at the same time teachers and guides for the Romanian people. Introducing a repertoire of songs found within the clerical space into the Romanian education curriculum, chants found in the Holy Liturgy, as well as Christmas carols, highly contribute to the development and enlightenment of the minds of children and youth, while also cultivating their spiritual purity.
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The article will consider the topical problems of teaching folk music in the middle and higher levels of vocational education on the example of the Moscow State Institute of Music named after A.G. Schnittke. Particular attention should be paid to the formation of a holistic view of the national traditional culture in the student. The awakening of genetic memory and awareness of ethno-identity in a modern urbanized person is carried out through the study of folk musical culture. The intangible heritage of ancestors is the foundation of Russian and foreign music. Intent attention to the traditional national musical culture is necessary for the training of professional musicians of the XXI century.
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Cultural and artistic societies through traditional costumes, choreography, songs, games and dances reflect the rich history of Croats and Serbs in Herzegovina and nurture and preserve from oblivion the cultural heritage of their people. Precisely because of the above, and through the field of applied ethnomusicology, the paper brings the connection of Catholics and Orthodox on Herzegovinian soil through certain similarities and differences in life and annual / religious customs, which are the result of common heritage of Croats and Serbs through centuries of coexistence and acculturation.
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The paper presents the results of activities of academic staff in the field of research and application of elements of music and dance folklorism in the professional didactics of music art, which are part of the project KEGA 037UMB-4/2018, Creation of a musical-dance work as an artistic means for the development of union didactics on the platform of the university artistic ensemble, which was implemented in 2018-2021 at the Department of Music Culture, Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University, in cooperation with the Department of Elementary and Preschool Pedagogy, the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, MBU and the Department of Ethnology and Non-European Studies, University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava.
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This article presents aspects of affective atmospheres in the context of commemorating the events of the Second World War in post-socialist Slovenia. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of partisan songs in establishing relations between the past and the present, discussed with specific reference to commemorative events and the experiences of singers in a rural choir. Individual narratives revealed the internal dynamics of each singer’s experience while singing partisan songs, as well as the role that collective memory, the past, history, politics, and personal narratives play in that experience. The singers’ experiences also provide the basis for questioning the concepts of coherence within the theory of affective atmospheres.
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Student association Svačić was founded in 1906 as a tamburitza orchestra operating within Varaždin Gymnasium and later it was converted into a tamburitza music association that held concerts outside school as well. Led by teacher Milan Stahuljak it consisted of a high-quality tamburitza orchestra and choir as well as a chamber orchestra. By summer 1913 they used to organize music and declamatory productions which were sometimes complemented with amateur shows and organized ballroom dances. Soon thereafter Svačić became one of the must-have participants of all the important events in Gymnasium, and their programs added new qualities to the cultural and entertainment offer in Varaždin. Before World War I teacher Tomislav Miškulin became their choirmaster and he put special emphasis on concert activities of the association. As soon as the political circumstances became more favorable (during and after the war) Svačić performances aided significantly in raising resources for the poor Gymnasium students and casualties of war. As a consequence of the persistent work by Milan Kaman, the new head of Varaždin Gymansium, the dictatorial regime of the king Aleksandar eventually allowed the foundation of Varaždin Gymnasium association „Svačić“ in 1930 so that they may supervise extracurricular activities of the school. The activity of the association was defined by a rulebook („Pravilnik“) which was approved by the Ministry of Education and it was set up through various sections. The first sections to be founded were the music, science, and literary sections, and in the upcoming years sports, visual arts, chess and philatelic sections were set up as well. The board of teachers appointed teachers who were leaders of particular sections which in turn held meetings where they elaborated programs for the so-called soirees. Those were events where sections presented their activities within the school or for the general population. Sometimes they even represented the school on a more formal level as well.
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In this article, art historian and critic Adrian-Silvan Ionescu presents the life and work of his father, portraitist Silvan Ionescu. In a life of 9 decades, between 1909 and 1999, Silvan Ionescu managed to draw and, thus, to immortalize the cultural-artistic life of Romania in the 20th century. In his countless drawings are represented all those who proved to be someone in the cultural arena of the time: writers, critics, historians, philosophers, musicians, actors, artists. Silvan Ionescu often returned to certain faces: Lucian Blaga, Tudor Arghezi, Liviu Rebreanu, George Bacovia, Mihail Sadoveanu, George Călinescu and others. The portraitist has collaborated with numerous publications from different periods: Literary Universe, Contemporary, Morning Star, 20thCentury, Daily, Literary Romania. In addition to the many volumes he illustrated, he also published two albums under his own name: Portraits of Writers (1982) and Great Musicians of the World in Romania (1995). With awide eyes and an alert hand, Silvan Ionescu lived his life with a sketchbook at hand. He undoubtedly contributing to the building of national culture by portraying many prominent personalities of the last century.
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Intentional eccentricity is a strategy targeted at how to capture publicity and media. Since the time of the emerging modern bourgeois society, exalted artistic eccentricity, bohemianism, has been a regular and significant part of social discourse. Dandy was a hero who needed to be distinguished from the petty-bourgeois lowness. Eccentricity as a working method has been a typical characteristic for radical modernistic art movements such as Dada, Futurism or Surrealism. Popular music has involved eccentricities since the early 1950s, however Elvis or later the Beatles may seem very polite to us today. It is a question of cultural context and pushing boundaries. Eccentricity has become a recognizable brand, identifier and attraction, which should arouse the interest of the audience, attract spectacular visuals or deliberate gossip. However, sometimes it is not clear whether the shock is just a promotional strategy or an artistic intention. Thus, eccentricity plays a huge role in the popularization and commodification of pop-cultural products as a marketing tool that helps build the artist's image, product-recognizable differences and create different ways of linking audiences, with music production itself and its visual presentation often the result of a non-authorial but culturally industrial approach to music.
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Review of: Mircea Buta, “Aspects of the Church Singing from Arad at the Turn of the Millennia”, Editura Muzicală, București, 2017
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The Spanish editions of Dantiscus’ minor work Hymni aliquot ecclesiastici (Cracow, 1548), submitted for publication many years after the author’s death by his son-in-law Diego Gracián de Alderete, in fact, are not a reprint of the Cracow edition but a compilation of three prints: Hymni aliquot ecclesiastici (1548), Dantiscus’ poem De nostrorum temporum calamitatibus (1530), and the Genethliacon for Dantiscus penned by Caspar Ursinus (1522). Gracián uses them to build a monument to his father-in-law’s outstanding achievements and a testimony to his impeccable morals, supplementing them with a panegyrical preface and making significant changes to the poem by Ursinus and to introductory texts taken from the original editions.
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The musical culture of sixteenth-century Breslau (Wrocław) was cultivated primarily in the Church and school communities, which formed a mutually complementary system of connections since the introduction of the Reformation in the city. Since Philip Melanchthon played an extremely active part in shaping both these domains, the question about his influence on the functioning of Breslau musical centres seems justified. The answer to this question can be found through an analysis of his writings, related both to the issue of the perception of the art of sound and the musical practice followed in the Evangelical churches and schools of the city.
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Notre étude se donne pour but d’investiguer le motif de la chanson dans la poésie d’Adam Puslojić. Point de départ : utilisant l’expression d’un langage pragmatico-musical, la musique réduit le stress, améliore le rythme cardiaque et les insomnies, atténue les douleurs physiques, etc. ; la musique, apprécient les spécialistes, est de plus en plus étudiée pour surprendre ses effets thérapeutiques. Corpus : l’un des derniers volumes de poésie – Cerul, în direct-, publiés par l’écrivain serbe contemporain mentionné ; les motifs du chant, du son musical, de l’instrument musical se combinent ici avec une thématique religieuse ; ensemble, chant et religion, forment des ‘synapses’, des ‘liaisons’ et des ‘signes’ (termes inclus dans un sous-chapitre de ce recueil) dont nous proposons une interprétation en clé herméneutique. Hypothèse de travail : les poésies de ce volume sont des ‘strophes’ d’une ‘Messe’ intérieure, à la recherche d’un Dieu « cheminant toujours ».
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The intention of this article was to present an unique cultural phenomenon of the western and central Balkan Peninsula during the late Middle Ages, more precisely between the 11th and 16th centuries. Although the mysterious tombstones, the so‐called ”stecci”, have been capturing the attention of scholars for the past 150 years, many questions still arise also due to the fact, that the enigma of their existence has been exploited in order to justify historical rights or even territorial claims. Leaving behind the contemporary perspective of analyzing the heritage and without trying to find a legitimate "heir" among one of the modern nations , this study represents an attempt to present a general framework, the main characteristics and an inventory of the most common motifs that appear on these mysterious tombstones. The only conclusions, which can be assumed beyond doubt, are few ‐ we can only claim with certainty that the stecci belong to a wealthy class, who could afford them. It is very unlikely, that any particular ethnic or religious group was of any substantial significance in its make‐up. It is far more likely, that it was a heterogeneous group of successive generations of Slavs and Vlachs, who were catholic, orthodox or bogumils alike. Another undoubted feature of this phenomenon, is the intrinsic artistic value of the tombstones, which has been a source of inspiration in literature, painting and music.
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The relevance of the study is due to the need to study innovations in the system of higher music education. In this regard, this article is aimed at identifying the main factors influencing the quality of higher music education, disclosing methods of modernizing and monitoring curricula in institutions of higher music education, describing the main aspects of the formation of innovative education in the aspect of higher music education, predicting and justifying the possible consequences of introducing various innovative teaching methods not only in music, but also in other classes, for the preparation of future specialists for the education system and society as a whole. The leading method in this study is systems analysis, which can be used to decompose innovation in higher music education into elements. Also, in the process of writing this article, such research methods were used as: the method of logical analysis, the comparative method, methods of synthesis and deduction, the method of classification. The results of the analysis are presented in the article. Modern students independently and unconsciously innovate in their learning process. These include using a variety of online learning platforms, communicating and sharing experience with students and teachers of higher music institutions from all over the world via the Internet, using digital methods of information consumption to expand their range of knowledge about music, and so on. The materials of the article are of practical value for teachers and students of higher music education institutions, employees of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
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The perception of music requires focus on what is happening here and now. When working with children with developmental issues, it is important to modulate stimuli, so they are strong enough to attract and sustain their attention, despite any limitations. In musical activities, the children follow and respond to the musical movement that occurs within various changes in pitch, melody, intensity, rhythm, timbre, etc. Through these changes, it is possible to regulate the level of attention span. Different musical activities can be implemented into various educational and intervention strategies according to the children’s interests as well as their specific needs. The aim of this paper is to present music as an attractive and effective medium to improve children’s attention.
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