Course aims:

-to reveal the specific laws of creation and interpretation of this music;
- to form skills of reading and writing psaltic songs and of transcription in linear notation;
- to form the capacity to select an authentic and quality psaltic musical repertoire, based on its practice, but also on the auditions;

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

1. Recapitulation of voice IV
2. Recapitulation of voices I and V
Chromatic voices
3. Voice II
Characteristics, key, scale, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, flowers, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (I).
4. Voice II
Characteristics, key, scale, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, flowers, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (II).
5. Voice II:
characteristics, key, scale, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, ftorals, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (III).
6. Voice II:
characteristics, key, scale, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, ftorals, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (IV).
7. Voice VI:
characteristics, scale key, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, ftorals, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (I).
8. Voice VI:
characteristics, scale key, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, ftorals, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (II).
9. Voice VI:
characteristics, scale key, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, ftorals, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (III).
10. Voice VI:
characteristics, scale key, final note, cadences, intonation formulas, testimonials, ftorals, rhythmic-melodic formulas specific to the voice (IV).
11. Harmonic voices
Voice III:

12. Voice III:

13. Voice III:

14. Voice III:

Teaching methods:

Lecture, debate, Auditions and analysis

Learning outcomes:

To offer the future teacher of religious music (possibly the music performer or conductor) the opportunity to know, at a higher level, the pneumatic semiography, the theory of psaltic voices and the specific songs

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

exam 50% and essay 25%, practical 25%

Recommended reading:

KONSTANTINOU, Georgios, Teoria şi practica muzicii bisericeşt, Fundaţia Culturală Byzantion, Iasi, 2010, -.
PANŢIRU, Grigorie, Notaţia şi ehurile muzicii bizantine, Editura muzicală, Bucureşti, 1971, -.
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