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In our paper we will talk about the diversity of religious expressions through the writings of psalms in Franz LisztВ’s creation, that appears to us as a micro-cosmos of the romantic period, with an expressiveness that underlines the finest differences between possible human feelings in relation to Divinity. Glory, gentleness, hope, despair, all of these are typically valid human feelings, which DavidВ’s Psalms synthesize with grace, and Liszt has managed to faithfully voice. Franz Liszt chose to listen to the wor...

Over the centuries, the meeting between the religious music and the secular musical inheritance took place in various ways, some visible, other hidden. This paper aims to synthesise the correspondence between the Romanian byzantine music and В‘doinaВ’, identifying the reciprocal contaminations that came between the two genres. Both these genres represent cultural musical layers which could not be isolated, as they are interconnected by origin, vital space and destination. Although the similarities between В‘doinaВ...