Study Ecumenical church music in Banat elaborated within the project RORS 35: Religious music – Establishment of Cross-border Touristic Routes Elaborated by Politea Association Coordinated by dr. Bakk Miklos Project title: Religious music – Establishment of Cross-border Touristic Routes – RORS 35 Material editor: Reformed Center Timișoara Publishing date: February 2018 The content of this material does not necessarily represent the official position of the European Union. In case of any complaints, contact:
[email protected] www.romania-serbia.net 0 Study Ecumenical ecclesial music in Banat The well-known researcher of the Central and Eastern Europe's musical life, Dr. Franz Metz, stated in a paper published in Beograd in 2000 that church music in this part of Europe is still at the beginning of the third millennium, a white tab of the history of European music, and lists a few elements that contributed to this state of affairs. In fact, ecclesiastical music was something that was tolerated in the time of communism, and there was no support for research, for data gathering sometimes endangered. This situation is more than sad, it is even tragic, if we consider the volume published in 1858, entitled "Banater Liederbuch", that is, Banat Book of Songs, more precisely its preface, which states that there is no other place on the earth with so many languages and dialects, Banat being a place where different languages and cultures influence one another. We find cultures such as Romanian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Czech, Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovak, and Yiddish before the totalitarian era, each of which has a strong component of church music.