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De la neumă la interpretare sau despre procesul compoziţional în muzica bizantină
From Neume to Interpretation or about the Compositional Process in the Byzantine Music

Author(s): Nicolae Gheorghiţă
Subject(s): History
Published by: Centrul de cercetare şi documentare ŞTEFAN CEL MARE
Keywords: byzantine music; neume; memory; manuscripts; motivic formula (thesis); solfeggio

Summary/Abstract: In the Byzantine musical art orality was the common denominator of the entire mechanism of passing on of the kliros chant and the maestro-apprentice relation was the unique and exemplary model by which this was fulfilled. Starting from the study of some Byzantine and Post-Byzantine codices as well as from some theoretical and practical sources of this art, the present research tries to reconstruct the complex phenomenon of the formation of the phonic mental archives and of the mechanisms by which the medieval Byzantine musician succeeded in assimilating and afterwards transmitting the monodic repertoires of the Eastern Church.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 389-408
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Romanian