Cantemireştii. Aventura europeană a unei familii princiare di... by Stefan Lemny

I also thank those friends who supported and encouraged me during the writing of these studies. For more than twenty-five years, I had the honour, privilege and joy of being his student and apprentice (mathitis). I must first mention my mentor, Archdeacon Professor Sebastian Barbu– Bucur († 2015), who helped launch my academic career. Over the years I have accrued a number of debts of gratitude, which should be acknowledged. These are just a few of the topics explored in this book, topics which I hope will awaken an interest in these little known areas of Byzantine and Romanian musical culture, whatever the reader's level of specialisation. In other words, the mutual musical influences of East and West that were manifest in the Mediterranean during the Venetocracy and in the north-Danubian provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia, under Byzantine hegemony, the Church music practices of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the subtle insinuations of communist ideology found in Byzantine musicology and the military music of totalitarian Romania. The book examines the sacred and west-European secular influences, which formed in the Byzantine territories that from an early date came under Latin administration (for example Crete) or in what is today Romania. As for article content, it should be said that in spite of an apparent lack of thematic unity, the common denominator is interculturality and the musical blend. The studies in this volume were written over the course of a decade, and have been presented at various musicology symposiums and workshops in Romania and internationally some are the fruit of research projects undertaken at institutes of advanced learning.

Cantemireştii. Aventura europeană a unei familii princiare di... by Stefan Lemny