Tradition and Contemporaneity in the Dragaica

Abstract

Sabin Dragoi’s concern to determine the ethnic-specific of Romanian folk music, which can be achieved only by comparative-historical research, is not a goal in itself, but rather a factor that must serve practically at establishing and strengthening a national cult music school, and the stylistic matrix which has a generative ethnos meaning, in its typical sense, is a form and style creator and it stands at the origin of the folklore creations. In Rustic entertainment regarding the determinants of the stylistic matrix, we can see that, for example, the similarity of the horizon space - that can be intuited in the carol, in the melancholy song, and in the mourning - with the physical landscape is more a happy coincidence than the effect of targeted conditioning, because not the presence in a geographic and social area influences directly the spiritual creation, but the transfiguration of this permanently spiritual reality in a style dominant.