The Polyeleos „A Good Word” in the Musical Reflection of the Composer Horatiu Alexandrescu

Abstract

The polyeleos Cuvant bun [A Good word], thus conceived by the contemporary composer Horatiu Alexandrescu in order to be sung by male choirs, develops, harmoniously and polyphonically, an old psaltic chant written in the middle of the 19th century by the protopsaltis Kiril Arvinte from Ciolanu Monastery in Buzau and published by the archdeacon and musician Sebastian Barbu-Bucur in his volumes of church sacred chants. The composer creates expressive musical images, that send an inner state of peace and prayer, by rigorously respecting the functionality of the melodic formulas, rhythm and meter of the fifth tone; it is, thus, avoided, the sonoric spectacular which has nothing in common with the orthodox worship space.