MUSIC AND DANCE AS A WHOLE

Author(s): Rossella Marisi / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

There is a deep relationship between music and dance, because music performance may be considered as a kind of dance, usually performed by the instrumentalist’s arms, hands and fingers, and the movements performed by dancers may be considered as a source of sound and music. In performing works belonging to specific genres dancers and music performers interact, whereas in other works one kind of professionals fulfills all the required tasks. This article aims at exploring how the relationship between dance and music evolved over time, highlighting the most interesting genres and forms based on these two art forms.

THE CONCEPT AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE BASED ON OBSERVATION

Author(s): Viorica Crişciuc / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

The present article reflects the results of the observation experiment. The teaching and the formation of musical knowledge during music education lessons was investigated. The purpose of the observation experiment consists in testing the quality of teaching-formation of musical knowledge to pupils in terms of lack of application/partial application of strategies specific to aesthetic and artistic education/music education. For the statistical evaluation of the samples were applied the indicators of efficiency of teaching and formation of musical knowledge – the perception, the understanding-the synthesis, the application and the valorisation, the profound experience of the musical contextualized message in music teaching activities of the lesson.

ACHIM STOIA – THE MULTIFARIOUS NATURE OF A PEDAGOGUE. MARGINALIA ON THE SKETCH OF A PORTRAIT

Author(s): Anca Leahu / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

An essential generator of the artistic academic breath in Iași, Achim Stoia played a decisive role in the development and the thriving history of the Iași Conservatory. His activity is proof of a special passion for folk music, as he was a collector of folk songs, which he used mainly in his own compositional creations, of a selfless dedication to managerial activities, of a particular consistency in performing musical life, as he was a tenured conductor of the Iași Philharmonic Orchestra, and of strenuous efforts to research and attempt to create and discover meanings, translating them into a glass window stained with sounds. As to Achim Stoia's creations, he remained faithful to the soundness of the tradition that he acquired in Paris, as he managed to express himself best, most naturally and full of inspiration, in the choral genre, to which he devoted himself from the very beginning of his compositional career; he was clearly very attached to the inexhaustible resources of human voice, to the manner in which it met the needs of his creative sensitivity and to its capability to express folk music so genuinely. In his works, Achim Stoia made use of the simplicity of technical means, yet he expressed a maximum of semantic efficiency.

THE INTEGRITY OF THE LESSON OF MUSIC EDUCATION THROUGH MUSICAL – DIDACTICTECHNOLOGIES

Author(s): Marina Caliga / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

The education reform in the Republic of Moldova has triggered an intense process of reconceptualization of music education, curriculum reform,reassessment and restructuring the content of education.In the context of thequick modern changes,the aim of the musical pedagogy is to form the creative personality in the new conditions. The development and improvement of education, based on the changing requirements of societyto personality, and the transformation of the student into an active subject of his own development integrated into society involves the use of educational technologies and methods,which ensure efficient activities for teaching, learning and assessment. This study describes the modernization of the musical and pedagogical technologieswhich contribute to the integrity of the lesson ofmusic education through principles, strategies, methods and techniques.

THE PREMISES OF EXTRACURRICULAR MUSICAL ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AS A FORM OF PUPILS' MUSICAL CULTURE

Author(s): Marina Cosumov / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

The content of education in the postmodern society is a strategic resource for sustainable human development in space and time determined from/by historical, cultural and socio-economic point of view, etc. The educational reform, based on curricular approach, involves radical changes including arts education field, constituting/ representing "an essential precondition for/of the cult personality formation with high moral and spiritual aspirations" [Music Education Concept]. The conceptual valorisation of the extracurricular musical environment will favour the concern of musical education field, when the last will ensure a productive continuity by pursuing the development and succession from the teleological independent perspective of the affirmation process in its own correlation with the musical environment, available everywhere.

DEBUSSY AS A FORERUNNER OF INTERCULTURALISM

Author(s): Alessandra Padula / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

Between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, when colonialism was in full force, Western composers expressed a deep interest in non-Western music, drawing on its structures, melodies, rhythms and timbres. Since 1901 Debussy wrote some pieces related to gamelan music. Should these pieces be considered as examples of colonialist exoticism, or rather as early models of interculturalism? In trying to answer this question, this paper highlights the educational role of music promoting respect and appraisal of cultural diversity.

LATVIAN CONCEPT MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Author(s): Ieva Gintere / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

The article is devoted to the problem of defining a current contemporary Latvian music in front of programmatic music. The current is named in this research " music concept " because it has its core an idea or concept that controls the hardware. To place this type of music in history and teach in a histoirique context, it is important to distinguish the principles of romantic and modern music. Music concept that appeared to Latvia in the first decade of the 21st century , like the programmatic music in some aspects : they both have an extra-musical content (located outside of music , you could say ) and a semantic code leaves "translate" extra-musical ideas into sound. Nevertheless, the music is different concept of programmatic music primarily by its specific code. Semantic concept is worked into the deep structure of the work : calculated in mathematical figures of rhythm, for example. This is why we can not hear or read in the musical score. The idea is hidden, it does not open by only associations. Beyond code, music concept is organized by a principle called space-time . It is a metaphorical term for a musicology in which however is limited by the means of expression moving structure - by a certain figure of rhythm or harmonic formula . The term music concept is borrowed from the current avant-garde music represented by John Cage, La Monte Young and colleagues. It appears in Europe and the United States in the 60 - 20th century art, and also had an extra-musical idea , and coded a very simple and limited equipment .

MUSICAL IMPROVISATION AND JUDICIAL ACTIVISM

Author(s): Flavia Marisi / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

Can musical improvisation contribute to the development of music? Can judicial activism foster the progress of the law? Supporters of musical improvisation underline its popularity among performers of different countries, education, and stylistic views; opponents assert the higher appropriateness of a faithful performance of the piece, in accordance to the composer’s wishes. Similarly, supporters of judicial activism affirm that it serves the needs of an evolving society, whereas opponents contend that in this way the judiciary usurps the role of the legislature.This article tries to shed a light on these issues, citing the opinions of important researchers on these themes.

PIANO PEDAGOGY: WESTERN APPROACH IN A ORIENTAL CULTURE PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE IN MAGHREB

Author(s): Elena Ţigler / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

The main objective of education is to realize progress through qualitative changes driven by self-awareness. Education has a permanent effect and it entangles a long-term transformation. Pedagogy is necessary in every culture in order to facilitate and transmit cultural traits and art to future generations, being tied strongly to societal reality. Western pedagogical experience in a country of oriental background needs to find the balance between formative and informative, universal and traditional, and combine all those elements in a way that they complement each other for attaining the goal of opening doors to deeper knowledge for all the parties involved.

MUSICAL-EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH OF THE ADAPTATION OF E. E. GORDON'S THEORY OF MUSIC LEARNING IN POLAND

Author(s): Pawel A. Trzos,Maciej Kołodziejski,Beata Bonnal / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

he authors demonstrate the results of their own research on the adaptation and application of E. E. Gordon's theory of learning music in the educational practice in Poland. Their research quests regard all the phases of education from pre-school period to university. The research is generally used to verify the theoretical assumptions of music learning in Polish conditions on the basis of the experimental procedures with the use of tonal and rhythmical motives in sequential didactic approach, diagnosing the musical abilities and achievements with the tools by Edwin E. Gordon, musical instrument timbre preference in children’s formal and informal education as well as the correlative strategy in examining the relation between the musical abilities and the eagerness for musical improvisations and musical achievements. The authors represent the only research centre in Poland dealing with statutory research on the theory of learning music.

ΤHE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LATENT POLYPHONIC VIRTUES OF PSALTIC MONODIES OF THE TROPARION OF ST. PARASKEVA, ECHOS VIII (PERSONAL CHORAL ARRANGEMENT)

Author(s): George Dumitriu / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

Troparion of St. Paraskeva in ehul VIII psaltic belongs to the series of general hymns (standard) that is played in the venerable holidays. The Psalter Troparion experienced some choral harmonization signed by Ioan D. Chirescu, Achim Stoia and Nicolae Lungu. This paper analyzes and explains a new treatment of this hymn, which combines homophon writing with elements of imitative writing and fleeting use of different tonal plans, exploiting latent plurivocal virtues of psaltic monody.

THE SET OF 24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES – DIDACTIC INTENTION OR CONSTRUCTIVISM?

Author(s): Gabriela Vlahopol / Language(s): English Issue: 07+08/2014

One of the most popular collection of preludes and fugue on all notes of chormatic scale, ”Das Wohltemperierte Klavier”, belonging to Johann Sebastian Bach, represent the starting point of a long series of cyclical works with didactic purpose, made after the same pattern of tonal sequence. The didactic goal of the set, explicitly expressed by the composer in work prologue, and structural organization were important premises for subsequent revaluation of bachian model. This study aims to discover the relationship between teaching and constructivist side both in Wohltemperierte Klavier, but in its modern iterations, and the transformation over time of the original intent of the teacher Bach.

Comment on AVANT’s interview with John Zorn

Author(s): Ellie M. Hisama / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Muzyka lubi porządek

Author(s): Adam Fulara / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2012

John Zorn: Autonomy and the Avant-Garde (exc.)

Author(s): Ted Gordon / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Pięć. Wywiad

Author(s): Witold Wachowski,John Zorn / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2012

Five. Interview

Author(s): Witold Wachowski,John Zorn / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Music likes order

Author(s): Adam Fulara / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

John Zorn and the avant garde. Comment

Author(s): Howard Mandel / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Avant-garde as a lifestyle

Author(s): Witold Wachowski / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012