Skandierte Rufe. Myriam Marbe komponiert für Kinder
Chiuituri: Myriam Marbe Composition for Children

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian composer Myriam Marbe wrote Chiuituri in 1978. It is a work with a dual aesthetic: she brings together in music different ways in which children and adults express themselves. The literal translation of the title is “a cry of joy”, in other words how people vocally express irrepressible happiness. There was little cause for such elation during the dictatorship. And certainly no opportunities for expressing it in public - save as propaganda. Myriam Marbe’s work is a stroke of genius. Within traditional Romanian music, chiuituri are a literary phenomenon linked to this customary manner of expressing joy. However, instead of taking the usual approach of misusing a tame version of folklore to fit in with a national communist ideology, Myriam Marbe gives children and adults the freedom to meet and go “mad” once in a while in an imaginary world of joie de vivre.

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