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The main objective of this paper was to investigate and evaluate the factors which determined the winning of Eurovision 2014 contest by the cultural marketing campaign of Austria. Due to its huge stake, with immense financial gains and international consecration for the winner, the festival has become a true battle of national marketing campaigns. In the attempt to explain the social and political implication of the brave Austrian marketing campaign, I used the statistics that I found illustrative, overlapping the...

The article is a study of interdisciplinary cooperation of IT and multimedia experts from the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (UITMO), and the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theater. The cooperation resulted in several theatre projects that involve multimedia and internet technologies, in designing the prototype of a system for multi-stream online broadcasting of shows, with the option of interactive involvement of the online audience and switching between the streams; several long-term go...

The paper focuses on the fundamental manners of working with graphic notation within the Different Hearing music-creative programme, which has developed in the Czech Republic the method of classroom composing. It deals with the creation and performance of graphic notations and, on the basis of analysing 35 scores and the experience gained within the Different Hearing programme, describes specific approaches to and strategies of their creation within the context of current research.

The personal synthesis between national and universal that Enescu has performed throughout his compositional career is foreshadowed since the time when writing the Octet op. 7, one of the composer's youth works, that reveals a number of trends and personal marks of the style he gained in subsequent creation. With the new perspective upon polyphony, offered by the multitude of the processes outlined in the twentieth century, the Octet op. 7 by George Enescu offers a personal view upon multivocality, seen from a set...

If we talk about great musicians, usually men's names are remembered, not women. Only musicologists can name some musician-women, who have got be successful performers in the world stage. In common view men are thought to be as creators and women – executors of something men intended. Question of duality of artistic interpretation in music performing art is considered in gender categories of logic, ratio, emotion and sensitive. Analysis of critical articles devoted to musicians' performing art reveals prejudice ...

Contemporary Czech liturgical music is a genre which has been given an official attention of cultural community only after the year 1989. It relates to the political situation and the state ideology that prevented the spread of this music and even obstructed its musicological processing or pedagogical use. However, until this time, it has not been systematically analyzed, although the differences of styles and experience from concert presentations show that this music deserves the attention of artists, students, s...

This study investigates performance and perception of microintervals in first movement (Hora lunga) from Gyorgy Ligetis' Sonata for Solo Viola. The 2.5 bar excerpt was performed live by the professional viola player – the author of this paper, with intention to test the performance and perception of two intonational versions – one containing equally tempered semitones B3-C4 (100 cents), and the other containing microintervals, which should be performed by lowering pitch B3 by 49 cents, or about a quartertone (...

This paper wants to present and highlight the very difficult but very valuable work of Romanian composer Viorel Munteanu, conceived as a theme with variations, inspired from a carol from Transylvania (Romania), collected by Bela Bartok. There are presented the results of research and artistic activity carried out in several stages: structural analysis and solving the specific technical problems, for such an interpretive act; the results of the interpretation experience resulted from performing the work in differen...

Approaching the history of music at present day, entails, first and foremost, setting in order the writings of important authors, who, by their general- cultural view (connection to the historic, esthetical, philosophical and political ideas of the time), and musical (the balance between general aspects regarding the presentation of either eras, styles, or composers and their oeuvres, and the personal option for certain esthetics, certain language or significant opus), contributes to the diversity of research meth...

We propose a very important research subject developed around the concept of actor, namely a theoretical and applied study of stage movement in developing the creativity of actors. The study proposes the identification and, afterwards, the use of the contemporary acting and its adaptation to freelancing. Thus, starting from the present theoretical models together with the existent case studies, we will approach this subject taking into account the specificity of European and Romanian cultural pattern. Taking into ...

Beginning with the second half of the XIXth century, the Romanian space has known a powerful stylistic orientation, with its own main purpose to exploit the archaic, archetypal chant and melody, specific to the oral traditional Romanian music. The impact was strong and generalized, gathering a great number of composers who, through the approach of all musical genres, have developed the musical language up to a maximal degree of complexity, in a perfect synchronicity with the musical tendencies and currents promote...

At present, the link between musicology and new information and communications technologies, a well as the novel possibilities this link provides for preparing critical editions of music, receive more and more attention. Furthermore, financing and publishing extensive series of critical editions of music for print is becoming more complicated. Institutions financing research in this field are beginning to place more emphasis on the preparation of scholarly editions in digital format. The success of some of these e...

Term scene design relates to professional, artistic, curatorial, theoretical and ideological practices developed from the expanded meaning of scenography – as semantic category and artistic discipline. The first researches in this area in Serbia started in 1996 with the series of exhibitions and theoretical symposia dealing with the phenomenon of spectacle in the contemporary world, and resulting in scene design being defined as a joint process of conception, creation and realisation of a scene in the broadest s...

In the contemporary music industry the image of a musician or a music event appears to be one of the most important parts of an agent or concert organization work. Thanks to correctly formed image a musician (music event) becomes memorable, recognizable and able to concentrate appropriate target audience around him (it). Successful and elaborated image is a key factor for a music project success and sometimes overshadows the quality of the music itself. The purpose of the article is to present our own vision on im...

In his book length essay L'homme revolte / The Rebel, Albert Camus describes the absurd man in terms of its major essential qualities: freedom, passion and revolt and identifies its three major prototypes: the Creator, Conqueror and Don Juan. All these qualities of the absurd man, outlined by the famous French writer and philosopher in his writings, are undoubtedly vivid descriptors of Samuel Beckett, in all his human and professional stances: as playwright (The Creator), director (The Conqueror) and complete arti...

There are neither simple nor facile things or answers when we talk or wonder about Samuel Beckett the person, the artist, the professor, the playwright, the director. His manifest theater flashed briefly through the world, revolutionizing and breaking patterns and demolishing conventions. He challenged and irreversibly changed the horizon of expectation for spectators in what the theatrical experience was concerned. His dramatic creation, bridge between world and stage set new delimitations of the space of accepta...

The notion of empty space in this work was defined on the basis of theoretical investigations in the fields of theatre, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theory of space. Understanding of the empty space in theatre was based onto the theories of a British director Peter Brook, while the theoretical postulates of Jacques Lacan were taken from the field of psychoanalysis. Concept of the emptiness, which Peter Brook defines as the ultimate condition for emergence of the truly theatrical experience, was analyzed in a re...

From a general perspective, the Romanian composers of the second half of XX century felt themselves united to a certain synchronistic spirit of the musicians from the Western Europe (and not only them), being polarized by the imperative to create a synthesis, essentially based on the fusion of three factors: 1. The assimilation of composition techniques universally recognized; 2. The valorisation of the autochthone modal-archaic potential; 3. The personal, authentic infusion of the creator. In this context, two st...

Silence means concentration, emotion, analysis. The spectator understands what he sees. In the moment in which he sees a sign, he decodes it; the sign can be represented by a gesture or a sound but by silence as well. Could silence be a sign of the inner conflict on both sides of the stage? The present research is based on three axes: the actor's play, the communication with the partner and the reception of the message considering the unuttered word the expression of the inner language. In this vein, methodologica...

The art of the XXth century was marked by an effervescent creativity in continuous search for its modern means of expression and its stylistic evolution. Great creative personalities brought their contribution to the unprecedented assertion of those cultures by accomplishing syntheses between national folkloric heritage and European music tradition; those syntheses were differently achieved in each culture and by each composer, as they either carried forward certain traditions of the XIXth century or reinforced or...

Graffiti is, by its nature, an agent of architecture and of urban space transformation and can positively interfere on the affective and symbolic aspects of the living space. In the case of a problematic neighbourhood, for which was urgent to find solutions that effectively solved the existing social problems, and the bad image it presented outside, was, among other initiatives, created a street urban art gallery with the organization of an art Festival. The presence of a large number of graffiti pieces clearly pr...

Starting with the 1980s, the world of flamenco has been witnessing a process of innovation and internal changings. The roots of this process can be practically seen in the new directions flamenco follows. The discussion revolves nowadays around the question, if tradition and flamenco are two concepts that exclude, or rather imply, one another. We aim at answering that question by means of comparison between what can be defined as two distinct styles: classic flamenco and new flamenco.

The highlighting of the importance of melody in education, as an element of connection between the music theory and the other disciplines of the filed, represents the purpose of the present research. Sometimes, students with abilities, give up the musical study, overwhelmed by the universitary programmes' requests. The theme of the research is proposing the simplification of learning the theoretical data, by using the melody. The theoretical disciplines of music -History,Harmony, Polyphony,Folklore , Forms, Orches...

This article aims to highlight two aspects of sound concretization of a convergent spiritual background generated by the symbolism of stained glass window, exposing conceptions, orientations and even writing techniques belonging to composers considered to be very different stylistically. Come into sight since the period of great medieval cathedrals, the stained glass window will transcend the purely visual stage, being symbolically filled by the polysemy of light-colour-sacrality triad. From this perspective, the ...

The research aims to discover the efficiency in understanding the work with elusive message involving literary arts. In the work of the academical didactics, I found some deficiencies about perception of the true musical phenomenon. For this reason I have found it necessary to do a thorough research to discover the causes of deficiencies and remove them. In the investigation the used methods were: conducted audition and compared study. The study was applied to groups of students differentiated by education level a...