SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE USE AND THE NATURE OF ARCHETYPAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EUROPEAN AND ASIAN ORIGIN, IN ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
SOME CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE USE AND THE NATURE OF ARCHETYPAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EUROPEAN AND ASIAN ORIGIN, IN ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

Summary/Abstract: In the vision, and as far as European composition school’s concern was, the Idea of an Artistic Archetypal Dimension in Music is relatively a new one (affirmed in the late 60s), praising a valuable, massive, and original contribution of the contemporary Romanian composition school, for the use of universal archetype forms, once from creative positions (diversity in extension to multiple musical and meta-musical parameters applications, concepts, number of pieces), as well as from a solid structural position (through multiple theoretical contributions). Without pretending to state exhaustively, we will shortly follow the subject of this article through some considerations about the Archetype and Archetypal representations, preponderantly found in Asian or European Cultures (as paradigms, sacred idioms, mythical patterns, or expressions of the old layers of the human collective imagination), concerning the multitude of archetypal symbols found in this context, and how they correlates with musical aesthetic expression needs. Primarily, our investigation is related to this subject from a historiographical and anthropological- cultural point of view, and secondarily, from a conceptual and artistic musical point of view. We will be also interested in highlighting the various ways in which these archetypal idioms found their expression (in musical representations), furthermore emphasizing an analytical scrutiny of the styles and some creations of several internationally renowned contemporary Romanian composers.

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