Title: ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTUL MUZICAL BISERICESC ALBAIULIAN. MISIUNE, TRADIŢIE ŞI ACTUALITATE
Abstract: Alba Iulia, the old Romanian and orthodox center of culture and spirituality, was remarked from antiquity.Here, the dacians built an important military center; the romans, the austrians and the hungarians did the same.As a political center, the music was never missing from the citadel.During the Renaissance, musicians from Italy and France were brought into the citadel.The monasteries and the hermitages around the citadel, were supporters of plastical orthodox music culture.The mitropoly of Alba Iulia supported the romanian spirituality through printing worship and musical books.Due to the foreign occupation, the romanians did not have musical schools until the XIXth century.The school during that period took place in churches, and there the pupils were thought to write, to read and to sing 1 .