POLIHRONIONUL – MODALITATE DE EVIDENȚIERE A PUTERII DOMNEȘTI PRIN MUZICĂ
THE POLYCHRONION – A MEANS OF EMPHASIZING THE PRINCELY POWER THROUGH MUSIC

Summary/Abstract: The connection between the secular and the religious is very well emphasized by the ceremony of appointment during the rulers’ reign of Moldavia and Wallachia, when these countries were under the Ottoman domination. Whether we are talking about the ceremony of Constantinople, the cortege accompanying the ruler to his country, the setting in Iaşi or Bucharest, or other events, the music is ubiquitous, conveying a double hypostasis – both secular and religious – and ensuring a sounding atmosphere that transmitted the importance and the luxuriance of the ceremony, putting the ruler, as the power representative, at the core of these ceremonies. The previously mentioned connection is best represented by the polychronion, a musical creation, without a text having a dogmatic content, interpreted by religious choirs, in most cases inside the church, in order to praise the ruler when he was invested or participated in religious services or at different processions.

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