Az "élő kultúra" és a rejtőzködő élet

Author(s): Árpád Péter / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2012

Az élõvilág néhány milliárd éves léptékben gondolkodik, míg emberi kultúráról csak pár százezer esztendeje beszélhetünk. A kultúra definíciója megengedi, hogy gyö- kereit leengedjük a majomszerû õsökig, épp ezért a fogalom jelentésösszetevõi implikálnak olyan pozitivitásokat is, amelyek mentá- lis megragadásában nemcsak a fogalmakat, hanem az empíria segítségét is igénybe kell vennünk. Emiatt a kultúra nemcsak nyelvi konstituáltságában definiálódik, hanem megtapasztaltként, megéltként is, és ezen minõségében a szükségszerûen csak önmagán belül történõ értelmezéséhez hozzáadó- dik az ‘élet’ jelentésösszetevõ is.

Drogi i bezdroża muzyki kościelnej w Polsce po Soborze Watykańskim II

Author(s): Joachim Waloszek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 42/2013

The liturgical reform of Vaticanum II, started fifty years ago with the announcement of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium), changed significantly also the musical dimension of the liturgy celebrated in Polish churches. There are two vectors of the conciliar reform which seem to determine the mainstream of those changes. Firstly, the participatio actuosa requirement, which in consequence led to both the extension of the conceptual range of musica sacra by adding the concepts of folk art and folk hymn, and the appreciation of the vernacular and native roots present in the church singing. Secondly, the requirement concerning the theological purification and intensification of the contents of ecclesiastical rites, so also the church singing involved in the liturgy. Throughout the recent fifty years, the Catholic Church in Poland has made much effort to promote new compositions and musical praxis in liturgy as well as to give it proper orientation and dynamics. As a result, not only has the repertoire been enriched with reference to quantity and content, but also the general quality of musical output in churches has risen. What is more, the number of qualified musicians and organizers of musical activities in parishes has increased, although still not satisfactorily. However, it does not mean that in the past as well as at present there have not been obstacles on the way to implement the conciliar ideals and postulates. The reform of church music is still conditioned by many tensions and seeks its adequate way placed somewhere between the validity of Church Law and the artistic autonomy, aesthetics and pastoral pragmatism, avant-garde and tradition, between sacrum and profanum. Reformative ideas, based on the inappropriately conceived criteria of modernity and pastoral pragmatism have happened to be misleading for church music directing it towards religious and musical kitsch, rubbish, primitive entertainment, banalization of art and, what follows, banalization of liturgy. The socio-political context of the Church reformative activities as well as the regrettable level of musical education in Polish society may only be partially blamed for such a state of things. To a great extent, it is also the result of the frequently inaccurately adjudged “conflict” which is somehow a part of the nature of the artistic activities undertaken by the Church. On the one hand, such art wants and even has to defend its aesthetic autonomy and artistic qualifications. On the other hand, its advocates want to remain submissive as servants of Christian prayer. Each generation is engaged anew in the challenge of undertaking and “easing” these natural tensions and conflicts in order to find the so-called “golden mean”. Only the incessant deepening of both the theological consciousness and the aesthetic sensitivity would assure the right course of action. As a consequence, it may be pointed out that what church music nowadays needs most is the just and patient liturgical and musical education of both priests and the people.

РАЗВИТИЕ УКРАИНСКОЙ ФОРТЕПИАННОЙ ШКОЛЫ В ХХ СТ. МУЗЫКАЛЬНО-ПРОСВЕТИТЕЛЬСКИЕ ТРАДИЦИИ И МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ ОРИЕНТИРЫ

Author(s): Natalia Guralnik / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2013

Rapid development of Ukrainian piano school is an inseparable part of European pianoschool’s evolution in the 20th century. The article is aimed at describing pianists’ performance practice and its role in the development of national culture as well as at surveying the genesis of musical educational tradition and establishment of piano methodology. Ukrainian piano school is defined as a phenomenon of cultural and the 20th century 6 periods are singled out. Special attention in the structure of piano school is drawn to musical educative activities, its development having facilitated reconceptualization of the content of piano education and teaching methodology throughout different periods. The author emphasizes that piano schools leaders and their followers realized their intellectual and creative potential in various performing activities and original teaching techniques. Piano class is considered as a special musical and creative space at an arts educational establishment where traditions are kept and transformed, new ideas emerge, creative views of young music teachers, who are the followers of mother piano schools, come to life and develop.

Isten elhozza az időt…

Author(s): József Benkő / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2015

Matoševa pisma Nadi

Author(s): Iva Klobučar-Srbić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 04+06/2015

Sarajevska Nada, »ilustrovani časopis za pouku, zabavu i umjetnost«, bila je jedan od najvažnijih književnih časopisa koji su u vrijeme moderne izlazili izvan Zagreba. Pod vodstvom Koste Hörmanna, glavnoga i odgovornog urednika, i kulturno–književnoga urednika Silvija Strahimira Kranjčevića, izdavala ju je od 1895. do 1903.1 Zemaljska vlada Bosne i Hercegovine s ciljem da, po zamisli njezina duhovnog tvorca Benjamina Kállaya, »suzbije utjecaj hrvatskih i srpskih književnih glasila, da afirmira austrougarsku kulturnu politiku u Bosni i Hercegovini i da kvalitetom svojih priloga i grafičke opreme privuče što veći broj čitalaca«.

Slávka Kopčáková, " Vývoj hudobnoestetického myslenia na Slovensku v 20. storočí" ("The development of music-and-aesthetic thinking in Slovakia in the 20th century"), Filozofická Fakulta Prešovskej Univerzity, Prešov 2013, 303 pp.

Author(s): Renáta Beličová / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

CREATIVE INITIATIVES OF BROTHERS CONSTANTINE AND METHODIUS IN SLAVIC LITURGY AND SLAVIC CHORAL IN GREAT MORAVIA

Author(s): Jarmila Honzíková,Marie Slavíková / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

The article deals with the musical culture of Great Moravia in the period of the Byzantine Mission that influenced greatly both liturgical texts and choral singing. The textsof this music were also influenced highly by the work of Constantine (who adopted the nameof Cyril later) and Methodius. The singing of Great Moravia thus combined the elementsof both the eastern and western traditions. The article also includes an example of a canon in honour of St. Cyril, the authorship of which is attributed to one of the pupils of this scholar.

Crna limfa/zeleno srce: Alternativni leksikon duše

Author(s): Željka Matijašević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2015

Lakrimologija je, kao vrlo mlada znanost, posvećena suzama i plakanju. Ubrzano se razvija te razmatra i pomaže u liječenju fenomena povezanih sa suzama, plakanjem i sličnim suzećim pojavama, visoko specijalizirana doktrina sa strogo znanstvenim i metodičkim pristupom plakanju, razrađenom terminologijom i kategorizacijom, rječnikom i intervjuima u kojima se ispitanike podvrgava ispitivanju vezanom uz plakanje. Primjerice, koliko plačete, kada plačete; korespondencija između događaja i plakanja: postoji li ili ne postoji, mali plač za malu ranu, veliki plač za veliku ranu; zatim, nepodudaranje događaja i plakanja — to je onaj unutargenerativni, samoporađajući plač; onda kvantiteta i kvaliteta plača — je li onako rijedak ili obilan, više poput kapljica ili potoka; kakva mu je boja; kakvog su okusa suze, imaju li onaj pun, zaokružen vinski bouquet ili su više razvodnjene, okusa destilirane vode.

Патриотичното възприятие на учениците в епохата на глобализацията

Author(s): Atanaska Stoycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2015

In this article the senior teacher from Razgrad Atanaska Stoycheva is talking about the changing of values in the globalization world we live in. She also mentions the central role of public activities, like the annual march "In the footsteps of warchief Tanyo", that are in the core of raising such values in the growing ups.

Betonkatedrálisok

Author(s): Kálmán Kecskeméti / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2016

Гръцката митология - начин на употреба

Author(s): Desislava Mincheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 21/2014

Prof. Desislava Mincheva is presenting the exhibition of Emil Bachiyski.

Приобщаване на учениците към европейското културно и духовно наследство чрез патриотичните измерения на похода "По стъпките на Таньо войвода"

Author(s): Atanaska Stoycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 20/2014

As a senior teacher, who is taking active participation in the annual march "In the footsteps of warchief Tanyo", Atanaska Stoycheva is telling why this march is so regarded by the students and what they are learning through it.

Utracona ojczyzna. Tożsamość przestrzenna wysiedlonych Łemków

Author(s): Alicja Maliszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2015

The present paper examines social memory of the evicted Lemkos with regard to the Vistula Operation (ukr. операцiя “Вiсла”) and their lost fatherland – the Lemko Region (ukr. Лемкiвщина). The author applies biographical narrative method to explore constituent elements of the spatial identity such as: the Lemkos’ attitude towards landscape, places of paramount importance, idealization of the lost fatherland on eviction. This articles is based on a comprehensive literature review and presents the results of the field studies carried out by the author among the Lemkos.

Obraz Cerkwi unickiej w obwodzie białostockim na początku XIX wieku

Author(s): Irena Matus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2015

Uniate Church in the Republic of Poland was established as a result of the Brest Union in 1596. During the following centuries it evolved towards Latin Church. Mainly on the basis of the adopted by zamoyski synod (1720) resolutions it underwent widespread Latinizing and Polonization. It concerned the dogma, liturgy, church services, rituals, laity and clergy. The interiors of the churches were changed, iconostasis, sacrificial tables and altars equipped according to the Greek rite were removed. The main and side altars, confessionals, pulpits, organs and other Latin utensils were introduced instead. The actions of the Basilian congregation were of equal significance. As a result of those changes the Uniate Church gradually wondered off from the eastern rite bringing itself closer to the Latin one. The Polonization was in full swing. Old Slavonic was replaced by Polish. From that moment on this was the language of prayers, sermons, religious singing and communication with the priests. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries Polonization of the Unite Church was advanced. The prestige of the clergy and of the Church as an institution didn’t raise, what was expected at the moment of introducing the union, the same could be said about its economic situation. All that was leading to the fall. The situation was worsened by the fact that the church founders, most often of the different faith weren’t interested in supporting financially the churches of their serfs. The sad picture of the Uniate Church emerges from the deans’ inspections from the end of 18th and the beginning of 19th century. In the Bialystok district constituting the religious and ethnic borderland Latinizing and Polonization of the Uniate Church were the most intensive.

LAMENT NAD BEOGRADOM… I OPRAVDANA NADA

Author(s): Adele Mazzola / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2012

The author reflects on her deep emotional bond with Belgrade, describing it as her "spiritual mother," offering her a sense of freedom and belonging, especially during times of social and political turmoil. She contrasts Belgrade's vibrant, human-centered atmosphere with the more rigid and superficial environments elsewhere, lamenting the loss of the city's rich intellectual and cultural life due to historical changes and conflicts. Despite modernization and shifts in youth culture, she stresses that the true essence of Belgrade lies not in its buildings, but in its enduring spirit, stories, and emotional connections.

BITEF I BEOGRAD

Author(s): Jovan Ćirilov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2012

The Belgrade International Theatre Festival (BITEF) lasted for almost half a century. Since it was established, its aim was to present Belgrade theatre lovers with new theatre tendencies ranging from the extreme avant-garde to the application of new theatre trends to the classics. This search for fundamentally and formally new forms has lasted until the present, as seen at the last BITEF held this September at various theatre venues in Belgrade under the slogan VOYAGE INTO THE TRUTH.

KNJIŽEVNOST NAD STOLETNOM MAPOM BEOGRADA

Author(s): Tamara Krstić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2012

This essay represents highlights in a century old literary map of Belgrade. Chronologically selected literary works show the development of urban image, caused by different developments and tendencies of twentieth century literature as well as by history, social and cultural changes. Cultural clashes, between the inherited one and the culture of the individual are causing the city metamorphosis portrayed in the Serbian literature of XXI century. In the „novel about Belgrade” or „Belgrade novel” the new hero or character will be born. Looking into the old or contemporary of the city, it will try to find the true self in the big city and identify itself with the Belgrade as it is.

DESET FRAGMENATA IZ DVE DECENIJE BESPUĆA

Author(s): Jovan Bulajić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-2/2012

The excerpts describe the fluctuating identity of Belgrade, illustrating its transformation through the years. From a city divided by political and cultural lines, to one dealing with the aftermath of war, societal struggles, and changing leadership, Belgrade is portrayed as enduring hardships and a loss of its former self, as it becomes entangled in cycles of conflict, uncertainty, and gradual decay.

November, 1989

Author(s): Zsolt Karácsonyi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 900/2024

Editorial by Zsolt Karácsonyi

Utak és hitek Amszterdam. Természetesen modern (esszé)

Author(s): Péter Muszatics / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 900/2024

Essay by Péter Muszatics.