Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII <h2>Journal description</h2> The journal is placed under the academic cover of the Faculty of Music from Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania, and it is an international academic publication, in which articles are published in languages of international circulation: English, and French. The high academic level of the journal is ensured by double-blind peer-review evaluation by two renowned specialists in the field, from the country and/or abroad. The Journal is indexed in EBSCO Publishing DataBase (<a href="http://webbut.unitbv.ro/public/site/documents/admin/a9h-subject.xls">http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/a9h-subject.xls</a>), from 2009, CEEOL (<a href="http://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=898">http://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=898</a>), from 2011, Crossref (<a href="https://search.crossref.org/">https://search.crossref.org</a>), from January 2019, and ERIHPLUS from 2024 (<a href="https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/periodical/info.action?id=502086" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/periodical/info.action?id=502086</a>). Publication in the journal is free for all authors. Open-access (OA) articles are published under Creative Commons licenses (CC BY). These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open-access material. <h2>Aim and Scope</h2> The main purpose of this journal is to present the most recent findings in music studies, directed at increasing the understanding of how music is perceived, generated, and represented. The journal invites established researchers, specialists in the music field, as well as young researchers, to take part in the construction of a space for debate in the humanities, to engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue within the music-related domains of empirical musicology, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. The journal presents academic perspectives that investigate a variety of challenges in the following fields: <ul> <li>Musicology</li> <li>Music Education</li> <li>Performing Arts</li> <li>Ethnomusicology</li> <li>Anthropology</li> <li>Music Therapy</li> </ul> Senior-editor, Madalina RUCSANDA <a href="http://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a> en-US editor.but@unitbv.ro (Madalina RUCSANDA, PhD, Assoc. Prof.) biblioteca@unitbv.ro (Corina Monica Pop) Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:17:44 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.3 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Don Quixote: Character and Symbol in Five Musical Representations (i): J. Massenet – Opera „Don Quichotte” https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11712 As one of the most compelling and rich themes in the history of art, Don Quixote de la Mancha is the central character of the eponymous novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two parts (1605 and 1615), it features one of the most important figures in world literature: the ultimate symbol of boundless idealism. His defining trait is the way he reinterprets reality, absorbing its negative energies and converting them into a light that emanates from his very soul. The Knight of the Sorrowful Face placed supreme value on freedom: the freedom to live his ideal and the freedom to be himself. These noble but unrealistic ideals—which ignore practical consequences and situational absurdity—form the ideological axes that have inspired numerous musical works based on this masterpiece. The paper extensively addresses the investigation of the theme in tonal and modern classical music, but - being only the first part of a more comprehensive study, which goes beyond the scope of this publication - we will focus on analyzing the first of the proposals: opera “Don Quichotte” by Jules Massenet. Petruta-Maria Coroiu Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11712 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Everything in Us and around Us Is a Reflection of the Spirit”. Wladimir Pantchev – A Compositional Portrait https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11713 This paper investigates Wladimir Pantchev’s work from the perspective of the musicologist and singer Albena Naydenova, Wladimir Pantchev’s widow, focusing on stylistic aspects. The author presents firstly the three generations of Bulgarian composers, who created the compositional school in Bulgaria. The assimilation of the Western compositional techniques with which the composers model the folklore is common in Eastern countries. This is obviously in Pantchev’s works. The importance of the folk quote is underlined by the author. The quoted folk melody is treated by Pantchev in heterophony: the interpreters have to improvise variants of the folk melody simultaneously. The composer used the controlled chance principle, creating a texture, which he named “sound-carpet”. Two works of the composer are discussed: Concerto for double bass and ensemble on old church songs (2001-2002) and “Lieder und Musik meiner Vorfahren”/ “Songs and Music of my Ancestors” for voice and live electronics (2008). Albena Naydenova Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11713 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vocal Hygiene in The Singer’s Career. Perspectives from Vocal Performance https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11714 Vocal hygiene is essential for singers, integrating preventive measures with performance practice. The human voice, unlike external instruments, is inseparable from the performer’s body and psyche, responding to fatigue, stress, and health. This paper examines vocal hygiene from physiological, acoustic, and pedagogical perspectives, emphasizing efficient voice use, hydration, environmental adaptation, and stress management. It highlights the relationship between spoken and sung voice, efficient management of vocal effort, and strategies for developing artistic autonomy. Understanding and applying these principles ensures vocal health, expressive continuity, and sustainable professional activity. Lucian Petrean Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11714 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 From Analog to Digital: The Computer and the Digital Equipment Win Recognition as Compositional Tools https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11715 In the 1970s, composers interested in the new working techniques manifested an obvious desire to complement analog technology with digital technology. Among the early attempts, worthy of merit in the field of using the computer as a tool for writing music, we find the contribution of Lejaren Hiller in collaboration with Leonard Isaacson and Iannis Xennakis that started building his textures with the aid of the computer, determining the possible combinations resulting from the probability calculus. Writing music with the help of the computer appealed to many important composers, such as Gottfried Michael Koenig, Max Mathews, Morton Subotnick, and Jean-Claude Risset. In 1977, the latter founded, with Pierre Boulez, one of the most prestigious new music research centres dedicated to new music, IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique). As in the last fifty years, computer music programs developed spectacularly, a list of important composers, software, research, and composition centers is mentioned. Vlad Roman Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11715 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Innovative Style and Construction Elements in the Creation of Folklorist Sabin Vasile Dragoi. Divertiment Rustic – Carol 2: Under the Red Sunrise https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11716 The structural analysis of the musical work aims to analytically present, under a personal vision, the stylistic, form, harmonic-modal structure, contrapuntal thinking peculiarities that the composer Sabin V. Drăgoi knew how to develop in an unmistakable personal manner. As I have mentioned in other scientific meetings, I aim to present the full Rustic Divertimento through a series of stylistic and musicological aspects as complex as possible. The second carol (Star Song), entitled Under the Red Sunrise, is included in the first folklore collections made by Sabin V. Drăgoi in the winter of 1922-1923 in Lipova, Ilteu, and Lejnic, being included in the emblematic volume 303 Carols with Text and Melody published in 1925. Since then, the volume has been reprinted and reintegrated into the national bibliography for the first time in 2024 through the efforts initiated by the undersigned and included, like other reference volumes of Banat folklorists, in the Banat Collection of Ethnomusicological Restitution. Lucian Emil Rosca Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11716 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Historical Considerations of Temperate Sound Systems https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11717 We instinctively tend to believe that nature has perfectly designed the phenomenon of musical sound, but this is not entirely true. Any sound is not singular, but the result of combining several vibrations, called harmonics. The first new harmonics are the octave and the fifth of the fundamental sound. Starting from this idea, Pythagoras, in one of the oldest sound systems, tried to build a model of thinking and determining the pitch of sounds using fifths. With the second voice (polyphonic singing), another type of sound system had to emerge: the tempered one. By temperament, fifths lose their pureness and become somewhat false. Starting around the 12th century, theorists have tried to find the perfect formula for polyphonic singing. This scientific paper aims to present some tempered sound systems, from the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque, which tried to solve the problem of tuning the pitch of the sounds. Marius Stanciu Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11717 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Wladimir Pantchev and his Work, Spiele, for four Clarinets and one Player. Similarities with Romanian Composers https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11718 This paper investigates the style of the Bulgarian-Austrian composer Wladimir Pantchev referring to his instrumental theatre piece Spiele /Plays for four clarinets and one player. In the same time, common as well as different features are observed between Pantchev and certain Romanian composers, who used the proceed of heterophony. The most closed to Pantchev’s thinking was Ștefan Niculescu, whom Pantchev met and had an influence on his work. Pantchev’s hererophony is based on the variants of a folk melody, which he put together in his music, using the aleatoric principle. Closed to Romanian composers is the using of the folklore (archaic Bulgarian and extra-European). He was awarded of the spiritual meaning of the folk material which he quoted, but he intended to give another meaning to it. The music theater Spiele will be analyzed focusing on the Balkan folkloric inspiration and new compositional techniques of Wladimir Pantchev. Ana Szilagyi Copyright (c) 2026 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_VIII/article/view/11718 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000