Şcoala muzicală de la Putna
The Music School in Putna

Author(s): Constantin Cenuşă
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Putna Monastery; Byzantine Music; Protopsalter Eustatie; Stephen the Great; Musical Manuscripts;
Summary/Abstract: The Voivodal Monasteries were spiritual centres, and also centres of Romanian culture and life. Within all these bastions of faith, there functioned actual schools and workshops of painting, sculpture, embroidery, precious metal crafting and schools of copyist and calligraphers.The Putna Monastery, the “Romanian Jerusalem”, as M. Eminescu called it, had such workshops and schools from its beginnings. First, we must mention the Musical School founded by Eustatie, the protopsalter who left a few manuscripts to us, which generated some disputes over their originality. Specialists in Byzantine musicology proved that the Musical School in Putna has its own originality, even if it appears within the context of certain Slavic- Byzantine influences.

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