THE BOOK OF SCATTERED BEADS (reflections on the narrative content, on the semantic map, and on the structural architecture: Pascal Bentoiu, “Deschideri spre lumea muzicii (Openings to the World of Music)”, Bucharest: Editura Muzicală, 1973)

Oleg GARAZ

Authors

Oleg GARAZ National Academy of Music "Gh. Dima", Cluj-Napoca. E-mail: oleg.garaz@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3285-3396

Abstract

Through a simple chronological positioning, the title of this book – Openings to the World of Music – declares its bridge identity through the very date of publication – 1973. It is a year located exactly at the point of symmetry between 1971, the publication of the volume Image and Sense, and 1975, respectively, the year in which Musical Thought appears. Thus, concludes what in my consciousness immediately finds a title – The Hermeneutic Trilogy – by the composer Pascal Bentoiu.

Author Biography

Oleg GARAZ, National Academy of Music "Gh. Dima", Cluj-Napoca. E-mail: oleg.garaz@gmail.com

Oleg GARAZ PhD Habil. is an Associate Professor at the National Academy of Music „Gh. Dima” from Cluj-Napoca. He was born in Soroca, in the Republic of Moldova, studied at the „Ștefan Neaga” High School of Music in Chisinau, at the „Gavriil Muzicescu” Conservatory in Chisinau, and then at the „Gheorghe Dima” Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, obtaining his doctorate in 2013 at the National University of Music Bucharest, with the thesis entitled The Canon of European Music in Postmodernity. He has published numerous books (13): Musical Contraideologies (2003), Musical Poetics in Conversations (2003), Musiconautical (2007), Territory (2007), Music and the Syncretic Meaning of Nostalgia (2011), Musicology Exercises (2014), The Canon European music. Ideas, Hypotheses, Images (2015), Genres of Music: The Idea of an Archetypal Anthropology (2016), Being and Tempo: On Music and Other Demons (2019), From Tannhäuser to Aida (2021), Treatise on Reading Vocal and Instrumental Scores (2022) and Tools of Musicology (2022). His analytical studies (over 30) appeared in the magazines Muzica (Bucharest), Studia UBB Musica (Cluj-Napoca), Musicology Papers (Cluj-Napoca) etc. with themes related to the history of music, stylistics and musical forms, issues of postmodern music. He gave lectures on musical aesthetics, the history and aesthetics of jazz, as well as musical genres. He has published numerous articles (over 400, music criticism, essays, interviews) in Tribuna, Kronika, Steaua, Balkon, Echinox, Caietele Echinox, Transylvanian Review (Cluj-Napoca), Aurora (Oradea), Astra (Brașov), Literatorul (Bucharest), Vatra (Târgu-Mureș), Literature and art, Bessarabia, Contrafort (Chisinau). His presence in the mass media materialized in cycles of thematic shows, interviews, debates at local and national Radio-TV stations. For his work, he was awarded the Writers' Union Debut Award (Cluj, 2003), the Pavel Dan Prize of the Writers' Union (2007), Muzica magazine (2016). Since 1998 he is a Member of the Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania.