{"title":"The Feast of Lăzărel - an Example of Preservation through Adaptation of the Ethnocultural identity of the Greeks of Izvoarele Village in Tulcea County","authors":"M. Kozlovsky","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.13","url":null,"abstract":"Izvoarele village is the only compact rural settlement in Romania whose members identify as Greeks. Oral history pinpoints the genesis of this community in 1830, when a few Greek and Bulgarian families, having crossed Dobruja, settled at the foot of Consul hill. Even though these ethnic groups went through a process of ethnic synthesis throughout history, it is visible that the Greek community of Izvoarele has preserved certain valuable heritage elements serving as an identity trademark to be found in the architecture of dwellings, garments, traditions, and in their main occupation, namely agriculture and sheep rearing. The present work deals with the musical repertoire performed on the occasion of Buianciu, a custom usually practiced on Lazarus Saturday (before Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem). The protagonists of Buianciu, or Lăzăriţa by its Romanian name, are girls aged 10 to 14, who sing ritual songs in Romanian, Bulgarian, and Greek. The enacting of this custom contributes \u0000to the consolidation of group relations to this day, as the entire community acknowledges the framework pattern of the celebration.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127993988","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 Heroic Myth in Modern Times. The “Star Wars” Franchise","authors":"I. Isac, V. Isac","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"Symbolic language is a particular system of expression that renders an individual’s feelings, and emotions, as well as one’s accumulated psychological experience, as sensorial experience manifests in the outer world. Understanding symbolic language serves as an important tool in understanding the significance of dreams as well as that of archetypal narratives such as myths, be they archaic or modern. Modern artists have searched for new ways of updating the universal content (and implicitly the narratives) in order to present role models that would enable modern individuals to access the transcendent. One such example is the Star Wars franchise and the soundtrack created for it by John Williams from which I choose to analyze „Duel of the Fates”.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114936752","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":"Christopher Bochmann´s “Essay XIII for Alto Saxophone Solo”: Proposed Fingerings for Timbre Shifts and Multiphonics","authors":"Mario Marques","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.14","url":null,"abstract":"Written in 2001, Christopher Bochmann’s Essay XIII for solo Eb alto saxophone requires the performer to choose the alternate fingerings or Timbre Shifts used at several moments of the piece, as well as for the multiple choice multiphonics proposed by the composer. The principles of use and choice of fingerings supported by the work’s feasibility will be examined based on the literature of different authors. This paper intends to present the information necessary for the execution, bearing in mind the technical difficulties, challenges, and results that the employment of these extensive techniques always represents, whilst respecting the composer’s initial idea. The result was submitted and proposed to the composer Christopher Bochmann and was approved for record release.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116765832","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":"Structural Innovations in the First Movement of Beethoven’s Sonata W. O. O. 47 No. 2 in F minor Kurfürsten (1783)","authors":"Dinu-Mihai Stefan","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.23","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the use of original compositional methods in the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata W. O. O. 47 No. 2 in F minor “Kurfürsten”, adopted to innovate the sonata on a structural level, but also to offer it a greater variety of characters. The alternation of slow sections with fast ones within the movement, the opening of the work with a slow introduction, repeated in the recapitulation, which was first used by the composer at the age of 13, as an absolute premiere in music history, gave rise, years later, to a masterpiece of the 18th century, the Sonata Op. 13 in C minor “Pathétique”, one of the best known, innovative and impressive works written by him, but also to another important and creative work from the beginning of the 19th century, the Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 in D minor “Tempest”.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131279640","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":"Rhetorical Analysis Benchmarks in the First Part of Shostakovich’s Quartet no. 8","authors":"M. Suciu, S. Drăgulin","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.22","url":null,"abstract":"Quartet No. 8 in C minor, op.110 is perhaps the most appropriate direct testimony of the composer, having a special status among his 15 quartets, which he acquired both through the prism of the conjuncture in which it was conceived, as well as through the symbolic charge of the self-readings in its content. We will assume a rhetorical perspective over the opening part of this work, in order to trace, at the level of the score, the immediate manifestation of the composer’s intimate persona through scientific means of classification.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128361454","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 Valuation of the Original Text in an Opera Vocal Score: Meaning and Pronunciation","authors":"Traian Ichim","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"The article is dedicated to the problems of working on the text of opera librettos in a foreign language in the process of learning opera. The stages of this work are considered - from understanding the meaning, which makes it possible for the interpreter to approach the most appropriate interpretation of the composer's intention, to the elaboration of a foreign pronunciation as an important indicator of the vocalist's professionalism. The relevance of the subject is related to the practice of staging operas in the original language that has taken place root in the activity of opera houses in recent decades. The author offers modern methods of working on a text in a foreign language of an opera libretto and shares extensive practical experience in this field of activity. The idea is especially emphasized that the process of studying a vocal work in a foreign language should take place in stages: from reading and learning the text without music to understanding the idea of the work as a synthesis of music and words. The process organized in this way will allow solving the task of creating a convincing artistic image. When practicing pronunciation, the importance of correct articulation and clear diction is noted and practical advice is given to improve them. Typical mistakes of vocalists in Italian and French pronunciation in singing are listed, and ways to correct them are indicated. The author of the article emphasizes that a good knowledge of foreign languages is an indispensable tool condition for a vocalist who dreams of a successful career.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130757415","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 Evolution of the Left-Hand Range in the Guitar Technique","authors":"Dejan Ivanović","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines and acknowledges the evolution of the left-hand range and the demands in the classical guitar technique since the 19th Century. In that regard, after presenting the problems which surround the main subject of investigation, special attention will be given to the section dedicated to the guitar in the Grand traité instrumentation et orchestration modernes by Hector Berlioz (1844), the development of the guitar music after 1850, as well as the 20th Century and the contemporary music heritage of this instrument. The next stage of the evolution of the use of the left-hand range in guitar technique will be discussed and options presented.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123252700","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":"Reason and Time in the French Baroque: François Couperin’s “Leçons de ténèbres pour le mercredi saint” (1714)","authors":"N. Karácsony, D.M. Rucsanda","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.12","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper aims to investigate the manner in which the structure of a certain musical discourse can suggest the superiority of reason above senses, as well as the static or flowing quality of time. In this sense, François Couperin’s (1668-1733) Leçons de ténèbres pour le mercredi saint (1714) was analyzed, striving to observe the manner in which the composer approaches certain parameters of the musical discourse (rhythm and metre, tempo, dynamics, ornaments) in order to suggest the meaning of the sacred text and to induce the listener a certain feeling of withdrawal, the absorption of the senses that can eventually lead to the mystical union with the Divine, accomplished through reason. The paper strives to highlight the differences between the Italian and French Baroque, as reflected in the work of Couperin, who strove to accomplish in his compositions the union between the French and Italian styles and forms. The question that arises is whether music is capable to express the passive state of devotion and contemplation, despite its unfolding in time, and whether it is possible to conceive the musical discourse in a manner that refrains from the anticipation of its future evolutions.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131153785","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":"Metaphysical Meanings and Archetypal Romanian Symbols in Today’s Romanian Music","authors":"Luminița Duțică","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"Late 20th-century Romanian composition stood out, above all, by its ability to open itself to novelty and experiment, and virtually align itself with everything that Western Europe considered to be an avant-garde artistic movement at that time. However, as time has shown, this “synchrony” – which is sometimes translated by the terms of the binomial “national universal” or, more precisely, “local-global” – happened somewhat selectively, avoiding the excesses and the extremes specific to the radical-nihilistic attitude present in other contemporary music cultures. One of the “keys” of this reconciliation strategy brings to the fore the Romanian composers’ preference for the great philosophical themes of our traditional culture, imbued with the metaphysical meanings and archetypal symbols delivered by myths and legends that have turned into veritable universals. Liviu Glodeanu and Sigismund Toduţă are (only) two of the creators who leaned with undisguised passion on various Romanian myths that they masterfully integrated into two extremely valuable opera. The former dedicated himself to the pre-Christian age and elevated the pagan rituals revolving around Zamolxis – the feared god of our ancestors, the Dacians – to the rank of an emblematic vision. The latter resized the dimensions of the myth of the ultimate sacrifice, masoning oneself in stone in order to build the temple of God – the church, as Master Manole represents – along with the ballad of Mioriţa – one of the founding legends of the Romanian people’s spiritual identity. In our approach, we will show some of the conceptual and language foundations of the aforementioned works.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121994087","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 Personality of the Conductor, Teacher, Composer and Jury Gavriil Mu","authors":"Costel-Mirel Nechia","doi":"10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.3.15","url":null,"abstract":"Religious music and secular music in Moldova, and especially in Iasi, have a history that fully deserves to be known and analyzed. After its construction, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iași became the sacred place suitable both for the conduct of Orthodox liturgical worship, in general, and the favorable space for the manifestation and evolution of psaltic church music, of the Byzantine tradition, as well as choral music, introduced in our country, in religious worship, especially through the Russian sector. In the course of time, conductors, protopsalti and composers of both notations contributed to the beautification of religious services and to the enrichment of the psaltic and choral repertoire, through exceptional compositions. Among them all, Gavriil Musicescu shone the most, a complex personality, especially in the musical field. The history of the choir of the Cathedral of Iaşi is closely related to its name and the context of the beginning of the organization of choral music in Moldova, since the early years of the 19th century.","PeriodicalId":440876,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125197791","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}