The Romanian music probably comes from Daci, an Indo-European
people, by the Byzantines, Slavs and finally by the Turks. The
first songs related to Romanian music are those of the Codex Caioni
(Latin Caion Code ), this code is the collection of pieces made by
two scholars in the seventeenth century. At that time the most
important musician was Johannes Caioni. Dacian territories
Byzantine territories Byzantine painting depicting Orpheus
playing.
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Johannes Caioni was born April 25, 1687 in Transylvania He was
monaco Franciscan and a musician, builder and repairer of organs.
He made a recovery of traditional Romanian music, transcribing for
virginal and enriching the bass songs and folk dances, which
brought together and published in the Codex Caioni. Without him
probably would not have existed a real musical culture Romanian. a
copy of the Codex Caioni Johannes Caioni
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From the second half of the nineteenth style of music has
changed. With the rise of Romanticism in the late eighteenth
century creates two musical trends:
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The light music first appeared around 1850 with operettas,
fanfare, waltzes, ballads inspired by Hungarian or Austrian
composers of the time ; the best creator of that music in the
period is Joseph Ivanovic. Only at the end of the century it
develops a Romanian school of interpretation appreciated abroad :
The following will be imposed singers, pianists and violinists
Romanians. At the beginning of the 20th century, it requires the
composer George Enescu, Romanian composer first to make a deep and
organic synthesis between Romanian folk music and trends of
classical music of his time. He uses a musical language and
experience modern mode shapes and microtonal and is today
considered the greatest Romanian musician of all time. Grave of
George Enescu George Enescu Joseph Ivanovich
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Romanian folk music is characterized by a big gap in the
rhythms, in the scan, on the stairs, between the various regions.
The same can ' speak for the dance, which is practiced, according
to regions, in individual, couples, and groups that have very
different meanings and purposes, according to the site. About
influences, ranging from music and dances similar to Austrian or
Hungarian music and dances like turkish or greek. In this I find a
singular concordance with what is happening at the linguistic
level, where coexist words of neighboring states, but also in
remote states such as France and England, these words imported from
the community ' cultured Romanian nineteenth century, when these
lands were opened to ' West. Clothes popular Romanian Romanian Folk
Artists Chircu Rodica folk music singer
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Creared by: Alfano Antonio IV G Sound track: Ciocarlia Tezaur
(George Enescu)
