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Thesis and antithesis, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, two complex personalities that marked the evolution of universal music, establish the subject matter of this article. The music on psalm texts signed by the two great composers can be considered valuable hints for the construction of the musician's profile by emphasising the origin of the musical choices, projected in the sound reality through the thorough imposing appearance of the two personalities. The differential typologies we will discuss relate to musical at...

Bedrich Smetana is one of the most important composers of the 19th century national schools, being the one who stylistically outlined the Czech music. Our paper highlights the discursive archetypes of his art, in an attempt to summarize the concise but exhaustive picture of his compositional means of articulating the musical discourse. Although his compositional means are typical for Romanticism, the vastness of the musical genres he chose makes us say that he is one of those who possesses, together with Dvorak, t...

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...

Our article analyzes the stylistic characteristics of Stabat Mater in the history of music, for the last four hundred years. The Stabat Mater is a XIII th-century Catholic hymn to Virgin Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during His crucifixion. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is considered one of the seven greatest Latin hymns of all time. The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers, most famously by Palest...

In our paper, we wish to present some conclusions concerning the importance of spirituality in music. Music has qualities that serve to elevate humans beyond materialism, thus it implies spirituality that includes personal growth. Spirituality crosses the entire musical art, as well as the whole creative thinking of humanity. Analyzing (from a hermeneutic point of view) the musical opera scores of the 19th century composers, we wish to emphasize the diversity of the ways of expressing the religious spirituality th...

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...

The inquiry we propose starts from the premise that classical music composers approached the texts of the psalms written almost 3 millennia ago and they rediscovered their meanings in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes which took place throughout history. Analyzing the musical scores of those who appealed to the text of Psalm 150, the aim of our research is to observe the multiple ways in which the psalm is musically represented in the history of music. Despite the different musica...

The research we propose starts from the premise that the classical music composers of the 20th century turned to religious texts written almost 3 millennia ago, and they rediscovered their essences in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes that took place throughout history. Despite the different musical composition techniques used or the origin of the composers, the subject of DavidВ’s Psalms is embodied in the work of some of the most prolific creators of the last century (Arnold Sch...