Regards sur la musique en Roumanie au XXe siècle is an attempt to overview all musics – oral and written, popular and art – created or transmitted in Romania during the last century. It is written for the Romanian reader, but also for a possible Western reader, which explains the concentration of the discourse obtained by ruthlessly sacrificing data irrelevant to a foreigner. It may come as a surprise that in the book I have stubbornly drawn connections between most musics and music-related events and the dominant ideologies of the time. Am I exaggerating? I highly doubt it. (Speranța Rădulescu)

A fascinating book, initially intended as a methodical identification of the different types of music present in Romania, but which takes on the dimension of a veritable saga of Romanian music. (Jacques Bouët, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles)

Peisaje muzicale în România secolului XX
Listening suggestions for readers of Regards sur la musique en Roumanie au XXe siècle / Rural Music

Rural Music

Pă dealul Cerbălului (On Cerbăl Hill), lyrical song from the village of Cerișor, Hunedoara

Vocals: Nicolae Poantă Husari (1952)

Mândră floare-i norocu’ (What Handsome Flower Is Luck), long song (doină) from the village of Sadova, Bucovina

Vocals: Maria Surupat (1936)

Nu trecui geaba prin lume (I Didn’t Pass through This World in Vain), long song (doină) from the village of Runc, Gorj

Vocals: Maria Arbagic (1933)

Long song (doină), Maramureș

Vocals: unknown woman (1939)

Mândruțo de dorul tău (Baby I Miss You), lyrical song from the village of Jupa, Caraș-Severin

Vocals: Cătălina Zgăvârdea (1937)

Cum să-ți zic neicuță dragă (How Can I Tell You Honey), lyrical song from the village of Jupa, Caraș-Severin

Vocals: Cătălina Zgăvârdea (1937)

Soarele și Luna (The Sun and the Moon), epic song from the Danube Plain

Vocals and violin: Mitică Burcea; cobză (a kind of lute): Ion Păturică (1951)

Iovan Iorgovan, epic song from the Danube Plain

Vocals and violin: Lache Găzaru (Mihai Constantin); guitar: Stan Gruia (1951)

Ursitoare, ursitoare, (Fates, Oh Fates), lyrical song from the Danube Plain

Vocals and violin: Ion Albeșteanu, accompanied by his ensemble

Suite of dances (sârbe), Gorj

Violin: Nelu Busuioc, accompanied by his ensemble (1930s)

Suite of dances: Învârtită bătrânească and Învârtita lui Opriș, Maramureș

Violin: Ioachim Făt; guitar, viola and hollers: Ioan Pop; double bass and drum with a cymbal: Grigore Chira (2013)


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