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Cecilia CURIS - PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY – METAPHOR IN DISENCHANTMENT AND MELOTHERAPY – A COMPARATIVE STUDY	ABSTRACT This article proposes a comparative analysis of the linkage structure that intervenes in the healing process in psychotherapy, starting from ethnopsychotherapy - disenchantment and arriving to the current psychotherapeutic practice - particularizing as a genre approached through melotherapy. The purpose of psychotherapy is to trigger a change of cognitive and emotional patterns that will eventually lead to the change of the client's behavioral pattern. Any psychotherapeutic approach starts from the idea of communication between the client and the therapist, based on an inter-human relationship of a particular kind, namely the therapeutic relationship. The particular character of communication in psychotherapy is conferred by its symbolic component. Beyond the message clearly communicated by words, communication between the two partners has a series of subtle attributes that materialize in the structure of the message and the emotions conveyed through it. The analytical approach to therapeutic language has been reported to the linguistic entity of the metaphor, using as an expositional method, the comparison. Keywords: Psychotherapy; disenchantment; melotherapy; Neuro-linguistic programming; communication.
Laura BOCHIŞ , Loredana MUNTEAN - A DO-RE-MI OF LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS	ABSTRACT The fundamental objective of the research is to highlight the effectiveness of music in repetitive learning sequences of isolated words, extracted mainly from the texts of third graders, within Romanian Language and Literature classes. The study included 28 third-grade urban students aged between 9 and 10. To assess the ability to update information through reproduction and recognition, a short-term memory evaluation test was used; it consisted of a list of 15 words out of which 66.66% were taken from a literary text recently analyzed by students within the Romanian language and literature discipline. The whole process was carried out in four stages of work; in the first stage, pupils passed the test without music; in the later stages, during the realization of the sample, music from recordings proved to be effective on concentration and memory enhancement. To investigate the effectiveness of music in learning, a questionnaire containing a total of 21 items was used. According to the results obtained, the use of music material in repeated learning situations leads to improvement of the updating capacity, both through reproduction and recognition. Taking into account the students' answers to the questionnaire items, we emphasize that they appreciate positively the existence of a music strain that ensures both a relaxed state of learning and conditions for easier encoding. In future research we aim to elevate the boundaries of the present study and diversify the music repertoire to investigate its effectiveness in more complex learning situations. Keywords: Music in learning, repetitive learning sequences, primary school, reproduction and recognition.
Veronica - Claudia COSTANTIN - COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF MUSICAL FOLKLORE	ABSTRACT The continuity of traditional music and the numerous studies in the direction of ethnomusicology are the first indications of the contemporary man’s attitude toward folklore. As a syncretic process, the musical capacity of the traditional performer is based on the multitude of his/her traditional manifestations such as the process of variation, creation and adaptation, improvisation, affective aspects, etc. The study of traditional music results in the interdisciplinary blend between ethnomusicology and the psychology of art. Because all the psychoacoustic and sociological processes of cultivated music can be found in traditional music, this proves that man’s affective nature, as well as social conditions are the main sources of the necessity for musical expression. This article entitled Cognitive Aspects of Musical Folklore proposes an approach to folklore from the perspective of musical cognition. As in other areas of knowledge, more and more rigor is required in explaining the phenomenology of musical folklore. Understanding the phenomenology of musical folklore consists of reducing one type of reality to another so that the nature of truth transpires even in the care that it is hiding, but in all cases, the same problem is that between the sensory and rational ratio. Keywords: violin, folklore, art, music, psychology, wail, neuropsychology, cognition, tradition.
Claudia BATARAGĂ - THE COGNITIVE IMPACT ON EMOTION IN THE ARTISTIC FORMATION PROCESS	ABSTRACT In a complex educational process, artistic training plays a particularly important role and one of the reasons is that the artistic event is a cognitive process of connection in order to obtain various emotional states imposed by the character of the works or the typology of art. Artistic training can be translated, as a finality, into the achievement of art creators, art interpreters, or artistic public. Every artistic act will create and emulate specific emotions determined by the chosen artistic field. Keywords: Music, Arts, Emotion, Cognition, Education.
Hristina MÂRZA - RHYTHMIC EDUCATION, INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN THE TYPOLOGY OF MATHEMATICAL AND RHYTHMIC INTELLIGENCE	ABSTRACT The paper highlights that the study of rhythm and eurythmy alike, contributes to the development of some musical but also logical skills. The amplification of the rhythmic side through its component elements is favored by logical‐mathematical thinking. In the educational field, when the child engages in rhythmic activities, he will involuntarily be involved in the use of mathematical cognitive abilities. Keywords: rhythm, education, eurythmy, intelligence, experiment.
Nicoleta DEMIAN - LETTRES SUR LE DANSE ET SUR LES BALLETS – CHOREOMUSICOLOGY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE	ABSTRACT Noverre was a French choreographer who applied in his ballets the aesthetic ideas about the inter-disciplinary approach of a dance performance – as we would say today. He created a new genre – ballet d’action – the story ballet in which dances were arranged on a unified dramatic theme, and extended to a several acts performance. In such a performance, dance represented the technical part of virtuosity, music gave the character of the movements and pantomime had to be the expressive part of a ballet. Keywords: Ballet d’action, synthesis of arts, reform the art of ballet, “Shakespeare of the dance”, choreomusicology
Iulia TOMA - CHILD ANXIETY MANAGEMENT BY MUSICAL ACTIVITY DURING INTERACTION WITH A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IN THE RURAL AREA OF THE NENO DISTRICT, MALAWI, AFRICA	ABSTRACT Anxiety may arise as a normal psychological response to stress, however, it may also characterize a number of disorders that lead to a variety of pathological behaviors. Anxiety manifests itself without discrimination, regardless of age, race or cultural background, modifying the activities and the general state of being of the individual affected by it. Children are also subject to anxiety and anxiety disorders which in some circumstances can endanger their health, and a medical investigation is one of the many situations in which children, more often than not, experience a state of anxiety. As the anxiety of a child during an interaction with a healthcare provider is a well-documented fact, there are efforts made towards making such interactions as stress-free as possible. As a result, a wide range of prophylactic and treatment techniques have been suggested to anxious subjects alongside alternative or complementary activities. Music and musical activities have long been proven to have a calming and relaxing effect on human subjects. This is a pilot study tested one such technique in order to reduce the level of anxiety in children from Malawi, Africa, during their interaction with the healthcare providers, by using a musical activity. Keywords: song, game, healthcare provider, anxiety, interaction.
Veronica DEMENESCU, Ionuț ARDEREAN - THE AESTHETIC CATEGORY OF BEAUTY IN ORTHODOX MUSIC. THE PRELIMINARY OF A RESEARCH	ABSTRACT The Orthodox Church Music represents a field yet little explored in what concerns the structuring of clear aesthetic principles which can guide performers (priests, deacons, theologists, psalm readers), composers and listeners of this musical genre as to what is aesthetic and unaesthetic in this domain. This decision is entrusted almost exclusively to Liturgical theology. However, taking into consideration the obvious auspices under which this type of music exists, a clarification of certain aesthetic notions is desirable. This paper sets out to briefly discuss the aesthetic concept of “beauty” and the way in which it can be defined within the Orthodox Church Music so that the necessity of a mystical approach can be intertwined with the principles of Music Aesthetics. Keywords: The Aesthetics of Music, Sacred Music, Christian Orthodox Music Aesthetics.
Ana POPOVICI, Blanka GIGIĆ KARL - THE APPLICABILITY AND EFFECTS OF BODY PERCUSSION: OPINIONS OF MUSIC STUDENTS IN OSIJEK, CROATIA	ABSTRACT Body percussion has developed from music therapy and it is a low-requirement activity that can be practiced in various settings, as it is believed that it encourages physical, mental and social development. Based on the idea that body percussion can be a useful music activity outside music therapy sessions, we conducted a survey on the applicability and effects of body percussion among first and second year music students on Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, Croatia. Keywords: Body percussion; music teaching; specialized music education; concentration; rhythm.
Mihai POPEAN - THE MODULATORY EFFECT OF MEDITATION ON EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING, BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT AND BRAIN ACTIVITY FOR MUSIC COGNITION RESEARCH	ABSTRACT A growing body of research literature suggests that meditation can be successfully used to modulate a subject’s response to situations that impair normal functionality such as anxiety, excessive emotionality, anger, depression and temporary loss of fine motor coordination in situations such as performance anxiety or stage fright, as well as inhibition of short-term memory retention and recall. Furthermore, there is a significant number of other aspects of behavioral and metabolic response to meditation ranging from an improved reaction to casual but stressful stimuli to significant behavioral response change such as lack of negative or uncontrolled emotional response, a much improved ability to cope and manage under-pressure situations as well as feelings of lasting happiness which modulate the perception of overall experience. This paper surveys the research literature studying the phenomenon of meditation from an emotional well-being, behavior management and brain activity standpoint with the purpose of making connections with possible research in the field of music cognition and also for stimulating the contributions to such research from the community of music professionals. Keywords: meditation, well-being, brain activity.