{"title":"Queen Elisabeth of Romania: her contribution to Romanian music and her relationship with important musicians of the time","authors":"Mirela Lungu","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-025","url":null,"abstract":": Princess Elisabeth Pauline Otilia Louise of Wied, the first Queen of Romania, was born in a German genuine noble family. Music and art were seriously cultivated in the House of Wied. The education she received and her models to follow contributed to the way in which the Queen involved herself in the Romanian artistic life. Queen Elisabeth published her works in Romania, but also abroad, under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva. Her composition includes a lot of genres: poems, novels, short stories, essays, theatre plays and opera librettos. She promoted the beauty of our country in her work. She had an important contribution in encouraging the literature of great Romanian writers, by translating them abroad. Her lyrics have been used in over 400 musical works, the most known being those composed by George Enescu. An important role in her musical evolution were the music lessons she took from Anton Rubinstein and Clara Schumann. The Queen involved herself in the education and promotion of Romanian artists, such as musicians George Enescu and Aurelia Cionca, also the painter Nicolae Grigorescu. She was also close to many significant figures of that time, like the Romanian writer Vasile Alecsandri, the French poet Pierre Loti, the Princess Elena Bibescu and others. Queen Elisabeth’s importance is undeniable as she used all her educational heritage and all her resources to lead the artistic life of her adoptive country and this had a significant effect on the Romanian image abroad.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133946677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary Aspects Of Dance Theory","authors":"M. Chirazi","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-012","url":null,"abstract":"First and foremost, any corporal technique applied in dance training should have the physical ability to train the body for becoming stronger, flexible and more efficient. Even if the movements made by a dancer place him in the field of sports, we can say that he is not a simple athlete, but a sports artist who uses in his training forms of research and knowledge that comes from the science of dance. Through the principles of training and by applying them it is possible to adjust the physical development, which is becoming significant when the volume of work and the intensity of the dancer`s performance are taken into account. This article examines the methods of technical improvement of dance classes by applying the scientific principles of dance, as well as a brief history of the development of science in dance as a separate field from that in the science of sport. The text focuses on exercise physiology, motor control and assimilation, and dance psychology. The main purpose of these suggestions is to enhance the technique of dance classes, without essentially altering its primary structure and artistic objectives. The practice of teaching both dance technique and the act itself has been focused on mastering artistic forms for centuries. Although traditional dance teaching methods make up fine tools for the formation of the dancing artist, too often dancers are affected by what appear to be insurmountable physical obstacles. Dance classes were built primarily to learn the vocabulary and movement skills, to develop their musicality and formulation, and to enhance uniqueness in creativity and expressiveness. For the current generation of young dancers, the science of dance makes its presence in the artistic field to provide information on these issues.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131827542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Autonomy Of The Aesthetic Dimension In The Romanian Musical Works Of The Decade 1980-1990. Pascal Bentoiu And His Generation","authors":"L. Vasiliu","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115585607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Contemporary Approach to Music Instrumentation","authors":"D. Spînu","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-021","url":null,"abstract":": In Romanian higher music education, the disciplines of Music Instrumentation and Orchestration are based on an extremely small number of treatises in the Romanian language. They cover the description and analysis of the musical instruments used in the symphony orchestra, but references to modern musical instruments are brief or even lacking, either because of the age of these treatises or because jazz / pop / rock genres were not studied in formal music education before 1994. Moreover, in the musicological approaches references was made rather to the modern instruments used experimentally in classical music. This study primarily analyzes the modern musical instruments widely used in the jazz / pop / rock genres, highlighting their new ways of producing sound. The association with the mechanical means of the traditional instruments leads to a new approach to the classification of musical instruments, based on new criteria, including that of existing treaties, but becoming much broader.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122778630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who, What, Why, Where, And How Is The Clown Today?","authors":"A. Darie","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-009","url":null,"abstract":": Between November 2019 and January 2020, I carried out a sociological research meant to indicate the majority opinion on the concept of clown. The results obtained provide the following conclusions. The general opinion on the clown presents itself in statistical data as follows: positive in proportion of 61%, indifferent in proportion of 28% and negative in proportion of 11%. We can thus remark a mostly positive perspective on the clown, with a single modification in the age group of 19-25 years. The percentage of those who never saw clowns at the circus gradually decreases with the age. Why is it that the age group of 6-18 years records the highest percent? Is the circus a form of entertainment much more appreciated after 2000 in Romania? Did the historical and political context after 1950 have an influence on the respective percentage value? 83% of those who felt scared saw clowns through horror movies and 23% of those who saw clowns through movies felt scared. The aesthetics of the horror clown has several origins, developed and crosschecked according to historic-political criteria between the 18 th -20 th centuries. This evolution preserved in the character's necessity the strangeness, the impression of nonhuman or transhuman, of incredibleness of the \"character\". Its purpose is exclusively that of astonishing the audience by any means available. From acrobatics to story and character, from multifunctionality and the occurrence of duos or trios to caricaturist mirrors of the human, the clown permanently looked to boost immediate emotions in the audience. It was from this association that the horror clown was born at the end of the 20 th century. The study demonstrates the low level of the aesthetic representations specific to the subject of the present research. The absence of elements of authentic clownery, the orientation of collective opinions towards the marketing of the concept, caused first of all by the artists in the field, have as consequence the creation of a non-homogenous, unclear and non-artistic hybrid.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117192581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy Sets and the techniques of Development in L. van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata nr. 8 in C minor","authors":"Petruța-Maria Coroiu","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-020","url":null,"abstract":": Modern musical analysis is shaped by potential influences from other research fields, which highlight musical value from a different perspective. Such a shift in paradigm can stem from the theory of FUZZY SETS, which offers several explanations concerning the way in which the mathematical arguments serve to understand the meaning of a work of art. Fuzzy logic gives us the necessary instruments to represent in intelligent systems certain imprecise concepts, which are context-dependent – fuzzy variables. The logic of the fuzzy sets introduces values such as subjectivity, the poetic dimension, which are very important for the musical art, especially in the case of L. van Beethoven, which shows that he is one of the greatest composers who used development and variation.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131060192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124192510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fashion Hermeneutic","authors":"A. Chirilă","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-030","url":null,"abstract":"The thesis \"A hermeneutics of fashion\" aims to position fashion among the arts, discussing the importance of the clothing language in general and how it is shaped within the fashion ecosystem. Intending to determine its defining nuances, we will analyze the ways in which fashion has converged with other arts over time and we will make a summary of the instances of visual clothing language. At the same time, we will establish the interpretive possibilities when we refer to the field of fashion, drawing the hermeneutic process and the distinctive aesthetic elements that can be detached in this approach.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121950534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence - Competitive Identity Of The Research Of The Future","authors":"C. Avram","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-014","url":null,"abstract":": The article I am suggesting captures the presentation of a controversial situation in the field of Artificial Intelligence, a branch of engineering and IT that is rapidly infiltrating in all areas of activity, but also in the lifestyle of the 21 st century people. A text generated by the GPT-3 robot is the focus of my short presentation, from which I start the analysis of a possible scenario of the research of the future. While at the beginning of its development GPT-3 manages to \"write\" an article, having as instructions a few codes and using a very large mass of information, the dilemmas related to its future capabilities appear on a short notice. A brief analysis of the actual text generated by GPT-3 leads me to believe in a real competition between Artificial Intelligence and human research. \"What is lost and what is gained from the accelerated progress of science?\" What will be the fate of the performing arts?\" - These are just two of the questions I ask in the suggested article.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127805778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sound and the Acoustic Model: Capacities of Multimedia Usage","authors":"Cătălin Crețu","doi":"10.2478/9788366675193-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/9788366675193-017","url":null,"abstract":": This paper offers several possibilities for a creative approach in the field of audio-visual artistic endeavours (describing the how-to and the employed algorithms) based on concepts which turn to the spectral structure of sound, using its acoustic model as pretext for sonic developments by means of various techniques. Entfremdetes Ich oder die Anatomie des Schattens (The Aliented Self or The Anatomy of Shadow) for cello, live electronics and live video is a multimedia work where sound is processed in real time by live electronics, going through a spectral itinerary accompanying the multiple visual states of the performer: image, shadow, the image of the shadow. AquAcusTectonium is an audio-visual installation containing visual sound control algorithms: a dynamic sound spectrum continuously and interactively altered. The work is founded on a static, low sound which propagates in a generative-transformational manner through a labyrinth, crossing aquatic-visual media and generating a moto perpetuo spectral-sonic spatialized structure. Perspectrum is a sonic-visual construction on scientific bases, juxtaposing conceptual elements of the macro- and micro-cosmic physical space with an acoustic model, thus unifying the two states on a human scale.","PeriodicalId":410365,"journal":{"name":"Art and Research – Contemporary Challenges","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121932529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}