La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant

Since the earliest times, music has always been present at all peoples, as each people tried to embellish its cult and the expression of its religious feeling by means of the most significant and deepest treasures it had collected over time. The Orthodox Church has resorted, in its worship, to Byzan...

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Main Author: Nechifor (Nicolae) Horia
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Published: “George Enescu” National University of Arts of Iași 2015-05-01
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description Since the earliest times, music has always been present at all peoples, as each people tried to embellish its cult and the expression of its religious feeling by means of the most significant and deepest treasures it had collected over time. The Orthodox Church has resorted, in its worship, to Byzantine music. The current Byzantine psaltic chant is the result of the historical evolution of the ancient musical art of the Eastern Orthodox Church with its capital at Byzantium. This is, therefore, a final stage of development, wearing new spiritual clothes, purified by the Christian doctrine, developed and crystallized in the Byzantine Empire and holding its own forms and features. The Romanian people, of Latin origin, on the one hand, and of Byzantine spiritual formation, on the other, and a Christian people since its birth, has fully benefited from the universal treasure of Byzantine chant. The Christian missionaries were the first to bring Byzantine and pre-Byzantine chant in these territories (in the early fourth century already, Saint Sabbas of Buzău is attested to “chant psalms in the church”). Many Romanian musicologists have dealt with the existence and the continuity of a genuine Romanian tradition in the field of the sacred chant. Here, on the territory of our country, the Byzantine chant developed new directions, especially due to the institutionalisation of its teaching and practicing, once the first modern schools of psaltic chant were established, such as the music school of Putna. Afterwards, the whole eighteenth century was characterized by an overt struggle between the Greek and the Romanian chant. However, in spite of the different impediments, the chant in Romanian will gradually come to the fore.
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spelling doaj-art-7a4c4269270047e89de29769730accfc2025-08-20T03:14:57Zdeu“George Enescu” National University of Arts of IașiAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art2392-862X2392-94722015-05-01II1197206La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial ChantNechifor (Nicolae) Horia0 PhD candidate, UAIC, Abbot of “The Three Holy Hierarchs” Monastery of Iasi, Exarch of the monasteries from the Archiepiscopate of Iasi, RomaniaSince the earliest times, music has always been present at all peoples, as each people tried to embellish its cult and the expression of its religious feeling by means of the most significant and deepest treasures it had collected over time. The Orthodox Church has resorted, in its worship, to Byzantine music. The current Byzantine psaltic chant is the result of the historical evolution of the ancient musical art of the Eastern Orthodox Church with its capital at Byzantium. This is, therefore, a final stage of development, wearing new spiritual clothes, purified by the Christian doctrine, developed and crystallized in the Byzantine Empire and holding its own forms and features. The Romanian people, of Latin origin, on the one hand, and of Byzantine spiritual formation, on the other, and a Christian people since its birth, has fully benefited from the universal treasure of Byzantine chant. The Christian missionaries were the first to bring Byzantine and pre-Byzantine chant in these territories (in the early fourth century already, Saint Sabbas of Buzău is attested to “chant psalms in the church”). Many Romanian musicologists have dealt with the existence and the continuity of a genuine Romanian tradition in the field of the sacred chant. Here, on the territory of our country, the Byzantine chant developed new directions, especially due to the institutionalisation of its teaching and practicing, once the first modern schools of psaltic chant were established, such as the music school of Putna. Afterwards, the whole eighteenth century was characterized by an overt struggle between the Greek and the Romanian chant. However, in spite of the different impediments, the chant in Romanian will gradually come to the fore.http://anastasis-review.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/II-1-Arh.-Nichifor-Horia-BDT.pdfsacred chantRomanian traditionRomanian peopleByzantine EmpireByzantine psaltic chantByzantine musicOrthodox ChurcOrthodox church
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La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art
sacred chant
Romanian tradition
Romanian people
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine psaltic chant
Byzantine music
Orthodox Churc
Orthodox church
title La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant
title_full La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant
title_fullStr La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant
title_full_unstemmed La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant
title_short La Spécificité roumaine dans le chant ecclésiastique de type byzantin / The Romanian Specificity in Byzantine Ecclesial Chant
title_sort la specificite roumaine dans le chant ecclesiastique de type byzantin the romanian specificity in byzantine ecclesial chant
topic sacred chant
Romanian tradition
Romanian people
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine psaltic chant
Byzantine music
Orthodox Churc
Orthodox church
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