ЕКСЛІБРИС РАДЯНСЬКОГО ПЕРІОДУ: РЕТРОСПЕКТИВНИЙ ОГЛЯД КОСМІЧНОЇ ТЕМАТИКИ
The article covers artistic aspects of the cosmic ex libris and issues that should be investigated before studying the ex libris arts as a subject.
More...We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
The article covers artistic aspects of the cosmic ex libris and issues that should be investigated before studying the ex libris arts as a subject.
More...
The article studies scythian animal style from the standpoint of semiotic approach – as a kind of system of signs for expressing mythological information. Author is considering the opinion that because of the lack of written language in nomads' culture some of its features could occur in the art of animal style. Also the article defines some characteristics of embodiment of worldview ideas in the "language" of scythian art.
More...
The Cluj Modern festival represents a landmark in Romanian cultural life; getting accustomed to and understanding modern music are the main goals of the event. Even though the promotion of contemporary music is the pursuit of other national festivals as well, in the seasons of philharmonics and opera houses which perform this type of repertoire, the festival receives laudatory reviews from specialists due to its good organization and remarkable artistic level in performance and composition.
More...
The notion of marketing has a solid history and potential applicability in many fields. Literature has provided over time many definitions, directing the idea of marketing both to the scientific field, especially toward economic trends, and toward the social area, trying to influence the attitudes related to product marketing. If the domain in which we apply the marketing system is a musical one, its functions cannot be understood before clarifying the conditions under which the market is organized or the trade in goods is conducted, just as we cannot define some basic concepts without knowing the demands and needs of the people, or how to communicate and negotiate to satisfy their desires.
More...
The aim of the study is to provide a brief introduction to the cultural history of the personality psychological based findings of the musical profession. As we can see, in the different historical areas very wide variety of views appeared, until in the second half of 20th century music psychology, as evidence based empirical discipline formalised these naive theories. The most important findings were that the personality structure of musicians is fundamentally differs from the normal population (1); and the constantly reported higher level of anxiety-related traits in the case of musicians (2). The latter finding highlights the importance of teaching different techniques of mental hygienical interventions during the music teacher training courses in order to avoid psychopathological symptomatizing and the short-term burn-out of career entrant teachers.
More...
István Kolonics, born in Szabadka (Subotica), moved to Kézdivásárhely (Târgu Secuiesc) in 1855. He eventually became one of the most famous and most assiduous organ builders of the nineteenth century in Transylvania. He built about two hundred new instruments and repaired several. He also instructed numerous assistants. For many years this guaranteed the organs in Hungarian Catholic and Protestant churches to be in working order. This article, the fifth in the cycle about Kolonics edited in Studia Musica, presents the description of the second part of the organs made by Kolonics. The first part was presented in Studia UBB Musica Nr.1/2017.
More...
The aim of this paper is to present the historical, cultural, aesthetic and musical circumstances that led to the gradual unfolding of the reform process of the opera as an art form. The state in which music drama found itself at the beginning of the 18th century contributed to the formulation of essential principles that could guide the composition of a music drama, a work of art which had to transmit true feelings and emotions. The philosophical ideas expressed by the intellectuals of the Enlightenment are echoed in the musical works of Ch. W. von Gluck and mirrored in Orfeo ed Euridice, the unfolding of the reform of opera and the first of Gluck's works in which the composer strives to place the words before the music, relinquishing the old compositional methods.
More...
The present study is based on our experience and observations as a university lecturer teaching Musical Education and Teaching Methods for Music as a discipline. We have found that students enrolled at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, with a specialization in the Pedagogy of Primary and Pre-school Education, having German as language of instruction, need additional activities in order to develop the competences they need in designing audio-based musical lesson plans. In this respect, we have explored many options in order to find the most up-to-date and appropriate means to carry out our research, which led us to Audacity, a free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Among the most important objectives of this research we can mention making effective use of the Audacity program to create novel audio materials such as sound stories; developing students' ability to design and carry out musical activities based on audition; developing and strengthening teamwork as a learned competence, in creating an educational product that uses various information technology and communication means. Last but not least, developing creativity and imagination in students is another major objective of this study. To achieve these objectives, we decided to use Audacity, an open source audio editing and recording software, as well as other forms of communication, throughout the first semester of the academic year 2014-2015. Our work udertaken during the 14 weeks of academic training has shown that Audacity is an extremely useful tool in creating new means that make audio-based listening activities much easier. In addition, combining several software to create integrated activities has enabled students to openly express their creativity in a variety of ways, both individually and as groups.
More...
We communicate through vibrations, through sounds, we are vibration. The art of phonation is the art of the harmonic vibration of the spirit with matter. The art of singing materializes, through sounds, the spiritual energy. It makes that connection between spirit and matter. The singing voice transforms the psychophysical energy of the human body into energy of another type, spiritual. The art of phonation is one of the most difficult and a complex activity, as everything is produced within the human body. Various psychological and organic changes are produced, namely exchanges of energy, whose result is sound.
More...
The choir play a very important role in the German Evangelic church service and in the liturgy. It can be present in the church service as an independent musical part or as the substitute of the liturgy. Choral music can be just an opening or an ending part of the church service but it also can be an essential part of the liturgy by helping the congregation accompanying it. The topics of the musical pieces sung by the choir are related to the weekly psalm or to the sermon (told by the minister). The dynamic of the actual church service and the role of the choir in it are based on an agreement between the minister and the choir’s conductor. The essay that can be read below demonstrates the double role of the choir in the church service. In the “Kyrie” and the ”Gloria” parts it is giving an answer to the recitation song. In the choral piece “Der Herr ist mein Hirt” it is presented as a personal credo for the sermon’s message. At the ending of the church service Luther Martin’s words are spoken in the elaboration of Bartholdy F. M. (the 500th anniversary of the Reformation/ 2017): „Give us peace with grace”.
More...
Luther was a prophetic personality, meaning he was first and foremost a preacher. He viewed also singing rather as a practical form of preaching. He considered that the liturgical tradition and liturgical order of the Middle Ages was correct and worthy to be kept. He intended merely to remove from it some pieces and texts that were not in accordance with the Gospel. He made preaching in the vernacular languages a compulsory and crucial element of the worship. Due to his reform the congregation became an active participant to the worship by responding in his vernacular language, by singing and praying to the word that was preached. Seeing that there was a lack in proper hymns, Luther undertook himself the tasks of composing hymns. He was mainly the lyricist, but he took part also in the reformation of the tunes adapted from the Middle Age melodies. Luther’s hymn entitled A Mighty Fortress Is Our God is known worldwide and it is a paraphrase of Psalm 46. There are numerous artistic adaptations to this popular tune. In the following I will present some of these.
More...
The paper hereby entitled Ethnographic and Folk Music Traditions of Jobbágytelke (Sâmbriaş) presents a village in Mureş county. I started my research on this village already during my high-school years, more precisely in the school year of 2012-2013. This was the period when I collected the pieces of information regarding the traditions and folk costumes of the village and the 23 tunes that Mr. András Sinkó (my teacher of ethnography at the time) helped me do the notation for. In the first year of my university studies I extended the paper. This was the period when I collected the children’s songs, the nursery rhymes and the children’s plays that used to be played by the old generation in the nursery and in elementary school. This year I attempted to set the existing information on scientific basis and to collect more information. This is when I dwelt on the origin and historical data of the village, on the community institutions meant to preserve traditions, on folk dance and the members of the folk dance ensamble. I succeeded in noting another 21 new tunes, 3 of which I wrote down from recordings made by the late Antal Balla. In the paper I used 28 other tunes as well, besides those collected by me. For these 28 other tunes I own acknowledgements for István Almási, PhD who kindly granted that I have access to his collection kept at the Folklore Archive of Cluj-Napoca. The paper hereby could not have been written without the kind help of Ilona Szenik, PhD. It is her merit that my research can rely on scientific grounds and that the tunes are organized and have musical analysis attached to them. And last, but not least I owe acknowledgements to my thesis coordinator, Mrs. Köpeczi-Kirkósa Júlia, PhD, to PhD. Zoltán Gergely, researcher at the Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy, department of Cluj-Napoca and also to my informants from the village and to all the inhabitants of the village who readily informed me and introduced me to village life.
More...
The present study approach the genre of Impromptu, making a brief introduction into the history of the genre. It describes the specific nature of this type of piano pieces, and made a tonal, analytical incursion in the Impromptus (D899) by Franz Schubert. By using some summary tables this study provides an overview of the pieces, regarding the tonal, tempo, metric, and extension. Separately, the table of the shapes provides a synthetic image of the architecture of the pieces. Then it follows a brief description of each piece.
More...
The purpose of this study is to illustrate the relation between the elaboration of form within the compositional process and its implications in the interpretative act. I have chosen to discuss Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 4 in G minor Op. 40 for piano and orchestra, one of his most significant late works, given the evolution of his musical language. For the performance analysis I relied on Rachmaninoff’s own recording of this work. I have particularly focused on the importance of the arc shape (prominent feature and major Tchaikovskian heritage in Rachmaninoff’s work), an organising principle which impresses not only the dynamic and metric physiognomy of the work, but also the musical thought of the performer.
More...
The present survey aims at emphasizing Gheorghe Mustea’s ability to create a musical portrait of Boyar Moţoc, in his opera, “Alexandru Lăpuşneanu”. The overall portrait the author creates for this historical figure includes his psychological profile, suggestively presented in three different states, outlined on the relationship between two pillars (cause and effect and premise - consequence).
More...