A Bridge Over Times – The History and Modernity of Choral Chant in the Orthodox Church of Bessarabia, From Creation to Reception
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2024.spiss1.06Keywords:
Sacred music, Bessarabia, Moldova, Bessarabian composers, choral chantAbstract
This study aims at highlighting the choral chant in the Orthodox church of Bessarabia. Sacred music is a cultural area that covers the fundamental human values able to build and to perfect the complex cultural approach of human life. The spiritual history of Moldavia is definitely marked by an ancient original musical art, incorporated in an infinite gamut of emotions.
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