Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- I. Byzantine Liturgical Music and Music of Byzantine Tradition -- The Doxastikon of the Aposticha of St. John Damascus "Λαμπρῶς πανηγυρίσωμεν σήμερον ὦ φιλέορτοι", a Composition of Panayiotis Chrysafis (Dimos A. Papatzalakis) -- The Sticheron "Uşile pocăinţei" after the Gospel of Matins during the Lent period, by Filothei sin Agăi Jipei in the Exegesis of Mihalache Bucureşteanul (Adrian Sîrbu, Filotheu Bălan) -- The Overbalance of Greek Chanting in the Psaltic Manuscripts at the National Archives of Iaşi (Irina Zamfira Dănilă) -- The Principles of Byzantine Iconography in Byzantine Musical Art (Petruţa Maria Coroiu) -- Manuscript Iaşi 160/IV-34: a new look at the history of the codex (Stefan Harkov) -- The Chant's Exegesis at Anton Pann, Reflected by his "Anastasimatarion's" Translation Activity (1854) (Carmen Dura) -- Serbian Chant on the Threshold: the Dialogue between Orality and Literacy (Ivana Perković) -- Gregorian Melos in the Catholic Environment in 20th Century Moldova (Florin Spatariu) -- Hidden Modulations in the Old Sticherarion (Dimosthenis Spanoudakis) -- The Musics of the Prince: Music, Ceremonies and Representations of the Princely Power at the Courts of Walachia and Moldavia during the 17th and 18th Centuries (First Part) (Nicolae Gheorghiță) -- When Music Theory becomes a Chant: The Protheory of the Papadike in two Sinaitic Musical Manuscripts of the late 15th Century (Maria Alexandru) -- II. Ethnomusicology -- Traditional Music in Eastern and South-eastern Transylvania (Constantin Secară) -- Pre-modal and Multifunctional Musical Structures in Folkloric Expressions from Villages around Rădăuţi Region (Florin Bucescu, Viorel Bârleanu) -- Melodic Aspects in Contemporary PopularDance from Moldavia (Ciprian Chiţu).

Music Therapy: From Shamanic Rite to the RomanianRite of "Căluș" (Rosina Caterina Filimon) -- Musical Culture of Minorities in the Romanian Music -- Dynamics, Evolution, Role and Interaction in the Surrounding Areas (Veronica Gaspar) -- III. Romanian Musical Output -- Psalm and Psalmody.Continuity & Discontinuity. Tradition & Novelty. Unity & Diversity - with references at "Psalmus" by Ştefan Niculescu (Carmen Chelaru) -- The "Requiem" Genre in the Romanian Composers Outputof the 20th Century (Petronela Andrieş) -- Women Composers in Iaşi: Mansi Barberis and Elise Popovici-Goia (Loredana Viorica Iaţeşen) -- The Valorisation of the Universal Saloon Music in the Romanian Music Works (Cătălina Constantinovici) -- The Romanian Carol between Harmony and Polyphony. A Comparative Approach to the Views of Two Composers: Sigismund Toduţă and Sabin Drăgoi (Luminiţa Duţică) -- Romanian Music Festival, the New Series: 2007-2012.An Overview (Florin Luchian) -- Overlapping of Forms, Modern Style and AestheticInterpretation in "Sonata for Piano" by Vasile Spătărelu (Luminiţa Rotaru-Constantinovici) -- Sabin Păutza - "Sinfonietta (divertimento for orchestra)," a Stylistic Melting Pot (Anca Leahu) -- East-West Interferences, Adaptations, Reinventionsin Dan Dediu's Music (Antigona Rădulescu) -- Dan Dediu's Artistic Identity Reflected in "Frenesia" and "Mantrana" (Mihaela-Georgiana Balan) -- "Free" Rhythm in Romanian Music.From "Parlando-rubato" to Heterophony (Diana-Beatrice Andron) -- Pascal Bentoiu' Symphony no. 8, "Images." The originality, the poetic and philosophical expressiveness of theorchestral textures (Laura Otilia Vasiliu) -- Tradition and Modernity in the Author's Work "The Aquarium of Dreams" for two Pianosand Chamber Orchestra (Ioan Pop) -- "Coincidentia Oppositorum" - An Ontological Premisefor a Universal Musical Grammar (Gheorghe Duţică).

IV. The Classical Output in the Balkans and the Eastern Europe -- "Missiriotissa" and "Chaide Chourde" - songs for voice and piano by Manolis Kalomiris (1883-1962) and independently by Emilios Riadis (1880-1935), composers of the Greek National Music School (Anna-Maria Rentzeperi-Tsonou) -- Some Aspects of the Vocal Music of TransylvanianGerman Ethnic (Saxonian) Composers: Rudolf Lassel, Paul Richter and Hans Peter Türk (Tatiana Oltean) -- The Cycle of 24 "Preludes and Fugues". Modern Interpretations in the Russian Music (Gabriela Vlahopol) -- "Fantasy 29/8" 'Opening' the Boundaries of Social Space and Time through Improvisation, Communication and "Jouissance" Experience. A Dialogue in/about Dialogue between/in Music and Words (Ivana Petković, Milan Milojković) -- Towards a Bottomless Pit: The Dramaturgy of Silence inthe String Quartet "Play Strindberg" by Ivana Stefanović (Mirjana Veselinović Hofman).