Instrumente muzicale în picturile și miniaturile de la Mănăstirea Dragomirna
Musical Instruments in the Paintings and Miniatures from Dragomirna Monastery

Summary/Abstract: The history of old Romanian music is not studied to a great extent and is not known in detail because of the scarcity of sources. However, by combining all kind of data, one can find useful and important information. One of the available sources is the mural painting of various churches, where several musical instruments were represented in different iconographic scenes. We can add to these the miniatures found in some manuscripts, which also provide valuable information. A place where we can see musical instruments both in mural paintings and miniatures is Dragomirna Monastery. Musical instruments, such as trumpets, drums, or lutes are depicted in the church painting and in the miniatures of Anastasie Crimca’s Psalter. They give us information about our musical past. In this article, we try to identify them as accurately as possible, and to establish their role in the musical-artistic context of early 17th-century Moldavia.

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