CONSTANTIN RĂILEANU

Eastern modal languages: Byzantine and Turkish Music – From sign to vocal and/or instrumental interpretation
april 5 to 9, 2025

OBJECTIVES

The framework objective of this masterclass is to familiarize students/learners with the modal musical semiographic systems specific to the Balkan and Anatolian space.

PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT

 Among the specific/derivative objectives is the study of the semiography of Byzantine music from the 19th to the present.
Thus, the students will have the opportunity to form their specific skills, through the applicability of the theoretical notions taught (in practice) and the formation of skills, through parallel and comparative study and analysis between the Byzantine and Turkish and Ottoman musical systems.
The program also facilitates forays into semiographic and theoretical systems prior to the 19th century.
Another derived objective aims at the study and manners of using micro intervals specific to these musical languages and the strategies, respectively the teaching of their calculation methods.
Regarding the design and planning of this learning unit, the teaching content will be structured progressively and deductively, the pedagogical file containing the theoretical and practical elements specific to the informational package related to each day of the course.
The teaching-learning process will be dynamic, interactive, learner/learner-centered, didactic technique and method including heuristic conversation, didactic game and exercise, in order to facilitate knowledge transfer and rapid learning of graphic signs and their role.
The measurement of the results and the relevance of the proposed masterclass will be achieved by organizing a demonstration concert supported by the students, who will perform musical pieces/studies intended to prove the skills and competences acquired by participating in the masterclass./by graduating this masterclass.
The targeted repertoire will include Byzantine and Turkish musical pieces, with beginner and intermediate levels of complexity, selected in accordance with the duration of the program, respectively a 5-day masterclass.
TIMETABLE : 10am – 1pm // 2pm – 4pm

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATIONS

basic knowledge (theory) of a musical language (Western), experience in vocal or instrumental singing. The course will be held in English.

 

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BIOGRAPHY

Constantin Răileanu is a doctor of music from the National University of Music in Bucharest, presenting in 2014 the thesis entitled “Diastematic paradigms in Byzantine music”. At the same university, he graduated with two majors departments – Byzantine Music (2006) and Academic Choir Conducting (2007). He also holds a degree in History and Philosophy of Religions at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest (2001).

From 1998 to 2000, he works as a music teacher in Bucharest and, starting from 2004, he carries out a prodigious training activity in the field, by initiating, coordinating and supporting concerts-lessons, workshops, artistic camps and masterclasses , addressed to various age groups and for all levels of musical competence and training.

The competence and research work, the concrete efforts to disseminate the results, the teaching experience, the pedagogical tact, the dynamic interactive and dynamic approach are the attributes that led to the success of the numerous training activities carried out, materialized in the students obtaining high results and performances.

Relevant in this sense are the projects – CoolTrad (2024), Art Camp (2022), Dimitrie Cantemir (2019) – Greece, Tradition and Mastery (2012), online courses with students from all over the world from 2020 till today, etc.

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