Music and Musical Heritage as Factors for Rural Development

This chapter reflects on the understanding and measurement of development and rural development and on how music can influence it. Now more than ever, sustainability must direct development, and life quality indicators must be taken into consideration rather than income, growth, etc. From fieldwork, deep knowledge of different European contexts and a thorough state-of-the-art research, the chapter analyses cases and projects that have had relevant impact in their territories or may be considered for different reasons good practice cases. The aim of the chapter is to analyze those factors that may be considered to evaluate the quality and impact of a case. Researching, safeguarding, and recreating musical heritage produce impacts that go far beyond the economic aspects. Some of these aspects will be highlighted in this chapter. Results and conclusions will serve therefor to advance in research lines related to music tourism, musical heritage, and rural development, but will also be useful for managers, rural agents, local governments.

Victor Reva creative activity in the context of the development of the musical culture of South-Eastern Ukraine of the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries

The purpose of the article is to analyze the creative activity of a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, choral conductor, teacher Viktor Yakovlevich Reva. The methodology consists of the application of genre-style, structural-semantic, analytical and biographical methods for the analysis of the artist’s creative activity. Scientific novelty. For the first time in Ukrainian art history, the compositional, scientific-pedagogical, and performing acts of V. Reva in the context of the development of musical culture of South-Eastern Ukraine of the end of the XX - the beginning of the XXI century is analyzed. Conclusions. At the turn of the XX - XXI centuries. V. Reva’s creative activity enriched the musical culture of South-Eastern Ukraine. The composer’s works are included in the repertoire of creative groups and performers from Kyiv, Odessa, Mykolayiv, Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions, they are used not only as a concert, but also as educational material. The influence of both classical musical heritage and modern stylistic trends can be traced in V. Reva’s compositional work. The artist’s compositional work is genre-diverse, but the spread of his work and enrichment of knowledge about it is mainly due to the appeal to choral and vocal genres, which are a priority. Keywords: Victor Reva, composer, creative activity, musical culture of South-Eastern Ukraine

Exploring synergy in a mobile learning model for piano playing ornaments exercise with local musical heritage

This study addresses the potential of a mobile learning model that integrates local Malaysian musical heritage in piano ornaments finger exercise. An asynchronous model adapted from the concept of karaoke was designed aiming at a synergy of piano exercise, edutainment, and heritage education with visual and auditory accompaniments. We aimed to raise interest and motivation for piano playing ornaments exercise among learners during practice while raising awareness of local musical heritage. A total of 30 piano students aged 13 to 15 years participated in this intervention study; they were equally divided into a control group and an experimental group. The pre- and post-intervention assessments revealed an increase in the levels of motivation, awareness of local musical heritage, and perceived satisfaction factors for the new mobile learning model.

Enabling FAIR use of Ethnomusicology Data – Through Distributed Repositories, Linked Data and Music Information Retrieval

Recordings of musical practices are kept in various public institutions and private depositories around the world. They constitute valuable data for ethnomusicological research and are substantial for the world's musical heritage. At the moment, there are no commonly used systems and standards for organizing, describing or categorizing these data, which makes their use difficult. In this paper, we discuss the required steps to make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and outline action items to reach these goals. We show solutions that help researchers to manage their data over the whole research lifecycle and discuss the benefits of combining technologies from information science, music information retrieval, and linked data, with the aim of giving incentives for the ethnomusicology research community to actively participate in these developments in the future.

Aspects of the history of the military band in the cultural area of the Republic of Moldova

The military marching band is an imposing but also prestigious artistic present in the national and international musical landscape. Having a rich and old tradition, it continues to play an important role in the cultural life, asserting itself as a mechanism for promoting national and universal musical heritage and as an effective means of ethical and aesthetic education of the military and the general public. Often, famous works from the universal repertoire are more easily assimilated by the average spectator through fanfares. In this article, we will refer to some aspects of the history of the phenomenon. After 1990, with the postponement of the independence of the Republic of Moldova, military structures, internal affairs bodies, institutions for training specialists in the field, such as the Police Academy, etc. are created. As a result, military band orchestras are established and invigorated. One of them, which enjoys success and shows high professionalism, is the Band Orchestra of the General Inspectorate of Carabineers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Cultural and historical preconditions for the formation and development of piano art in Rivne region

Purpose of the article. The article reveals the historical dynamics of piano art of Rivne region and its formation at the present stage of development. Methodology. The concept of the study is based on the application of a set of scientific methods, namely: historical - involved in the chronological sequence of analysis of scientific publications; system approach that summarizes the achievements of piano art of Rivne region at the present stage of its development. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the implementation of a comprehensive musicological analysis of piano performance as a phenomenon of Ukrainian culture. An assessment of the historical preconditions for the development of piano art is given. The ways of formation and development of piano art in Rivne region are determined. Conclusions. Based on the factual material, it is established that the piano art of Rivne region has reached the stage of maturity in its development. Evidence of this is the rapid growth of piano art (performance and pedagogy) of the region and the saturation of this process with positive changes. The main factor in the formation of the piano art of the region is the borrowing and assimilation of national musical heritage.

Semantic oscillations of supporting music of the ancient cult as the foundation of metamodernism elements in the works of contemporary opera directors

In recent decade, modernism as one of the varieties of post-postmodernism, draws interest of the researchers. It is suggested that modern culture has transgressed the situation of postmodernism, gravitating towards conceptual and semantic sustainability. As a language of self-description of the new era, the foundations of metamodernism are reflected in various forms of art. The opera house, overcoming the inertia of conservatism, perceives these trends, refracting them in a characteristic oscillation between the extreme semantic poles, which formed during the period of antiquity. The subject of this research is the correlation between the ancient musical heritage and metamodernistic trends in the modern opera theater. It is determined that translation of the principles of musical score of the ancient cult within the framework of the works of modern opera directors implies the characteristic to the supporting music of the cult forms of Ancient Greece and Rome oscillation between the poles of monophony – polyphony, instrumentality of accompaniment – a cappella, improvisational – preset of musical pieces. Paradigmatic assimilation of the fluctuations inherent to the cult of antiquity, as well as the absence of intentionality in their manifestations (which partially reflects the religious-ecstatic procedurality of art), largely determine the specific attributes of metamodernism, emphasized in the works of R. Castellucci, P. Sellars, R. Wilson, and D. Chernyakov.

„BULGARIAN MUSIC“ – RESEARCH OF THE HISTORICAL-THEORETICAL MUSICAL COMPETENCIES OF STUDENTS – FUTURE PEDAGOGUES

The proposed material is based on a survey conducted among second- and third-year students at „Prof. Dr Asen Zlatarov“ University, Burgas with specialties „Preschool and primary school pedagogy“, „Preschool pedagogy with a foreign language“, „Primary school pedagogy with a foreign language“ and „Social pedagogy“. The choice of these specialties is justified by the fact that these students have musical disciplines in their curriculum. The personal observations of the author and the need to check and expand and enrich the knowledge of the students (and through the information from the survey) are the reasons for the creation and implementation of the survey. The survey includes questions about some of the significant and bright representatives of the first and second generation of Bulgarian composers, based on the Bulgarian musical culture as part of the world musical heritage. The questions posed in the survey are in accordance with the musical material (song and instrumental), with which the students get acquainted during their music education. The analysis of the survey leads to conclusions concerning both the general musical culture of the students in the field of Bulgarian professional music, as well as their knowledge and gaps in this field. The development and enrichment of young people’s knowledge in the field of Bulgarian professional creative output is in the context of improving their skills for learning and expression through creativity, which leads to increasing the level of their social, civic and cultural competencies.

Musical Exegesis in the Transylvanian Style, Composed by Dimitrie Cuntanu, at Our Lord’s Birth Catavasia

"The Orthodox religious music in Transylvanian tradition has a unique history. It gained an important place in the Romanian musical heritage, by the way it managed to adapt to Romanian, in its own style, the psaltic musical repertoire, of Byzantine tradition. Build from the oral tradition, which, in its turn blended with folklore, cult music, and the other co-existing cults, and from psaltic tradition, Dimitrie Cuntanu’s work fairly represents, the first Transylvanian religious musical monument of Romanian root. The Byzantine musical origin of this paper can be detected, together with other works, from the musical structures of the first Katavasia established by Cuntanu, at Lord’s Birth Feast. Transformed to Romanian by different anonymous protagonists of the Transylvanian music, the Lord’s Birth Catavasia represents a Hrysantic exegesis reference of Byzantine music, in a Transylvanian style. Keywords: Catavasia, Byzantine music, Anton Pann, Cuntanu, Romanian adaptation "