New Europe College Yearbook 2008-2009 EVELINE CIOFLEC ŞTEFAN COLCERIU CHRISTIAN FERENCZ-FLATZ NICOLAE GHEORGHIŢĂ ALEXANDRU GICA ADRIAN MURARU ALEXANDRU SIMON ANCA ŞINCAN ATTILA SZIGETI ADELA TOPLEAN Editor: Irina Vainovski-Mihai Copyright – New Europe College ISSN 1584-0298 New Europe College Str. Plantelor 21 023971 Bucharest Romania www.nec.ro; e-mail:
[email protected] Tel. (+4) 021.307.99.10, Fax (+4) 021. 327.07.74 NICOLAE GHEORGHIŢĂ Born in 1971, in Constanţa Ph.D., National University of Music Associate Professor at the National University of Music in Bucharest Music Officer at the Military Music Service Conductor of the Byzantine Music Choir Psalmodia at the National University of Music in Bucharest Member of The Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania Fellowships in Athens (1997-98), Thessalonica (2003-04), Cambridge (UK: 2006, 2009) and in St Petersburg (2009) Author of five volumes Author of 25 studies in Romanian, English and Greek languages, most of them submitted to national and international Musicology and Byzantine Studies symposia (in Romania, Greece, Netherlands, Finland, Austria, England, Italy) SECULAR MUSIC AT THE ROMANIAN PRINCELY COURTS DURING THE PHANARIOT EPOCH (1711 – 1821) Introduction Having commenced as early as the latter half of the fifteenth century, the process of “vassalisation”,1 which was later to become one of Ottoman domination over Wallachia and Moldavia,2 led to the princes of the two north-Danube provinces being appointed and deposed at short intervals, either according to the wishes of the Sultan,3