The creative adaptation of the psaltic monody in the present day choir creation for the liturgy in the Republic of Moldova - Teodor Zgureanu - The Hymns of the Holy Liturgy by Saint John the Chrysostomos

摘要

The present study focuses on the Hymns of the Holy Liturgy by Saint John the Chrysostomos for a men's choir, soprano and children's choir by the composer Teodor Zgureanu; he draws his inspiration from the monody of Byzantine origin. The melodies he creates are original; in some of the parts/sections of his Liturgy he only suggests oriental themes, while in others he faithfully reproduces the features of the psaltic monody (a modal sound structure, characteristic of psalm echoi, gradual and undulating scalar profile, specific formulas and cadences). The musical devices he uses are reminiscent of practices in the church choir singing (the ison, the dialogue between the soloist and the choir in the antiphonal manner); the harmonic devices consist of free harmonic non-functional relations, simple and double ison, motif sequencing a.s.o.