Dr Elena Șorban is a researcher at the Academy of Music in Cluj, and she also teaches at the Faculty of Reformed Theology of the Babeș-Bolyai University.
She obtained a PhD in musicology from the “Gheorghe Dima” Academy of Music in Cluj, and was a fellow of the Kodály Institute of Musicology in Budapest.
Research interests
Dr Elena Șorban is a musicologist specialised in Western plainchant. She has published extensively on the liturgical manuscripts of medieval Transylvania.
Dr Șorban teaches musical palaeography, and conducts choirs performing Gregorian music.
Select Publications
VIGILIALE, MDVII. Monumeta et transcripta. Ed. E. M. Şorban, Quellen der rumänischen Musik, vol. XIV, Editura Muzicală Bucureşti, 1986, 114 p.
Muzică şi paleografie gregoriană, MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca, 2007, 134 p., ISBN 978-973-8431-76-8
Muzica veche. O istorie concentrată, Editura Eikon, Cluj-Napoca, 2014, 170 p., ISBN 978-606-711-067-8
La musique grégorienne de Roumanie. Les manuscrits. Le genre d’hymne. In: Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis, Vol. VI, nº 4, Bydgoszcz, 1988
Zum Sprechgesang in der rumänischen Oper des XX. Jahrhunderts. In: Musik als Text. Beitraege des Internationalen Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, Kassel, vol. 2, p. 498-502
Cantus-Planus-Handschriften aus dem mittelalterlichen Siebenbürgen. In: Deutsche Musik im Osten, Bd. 10,Musikgeschichte zwischen Ost- und Westeuropa, Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 1996, p. 467-472
Liturgikus énekek Kapisztrán Szent János tiszteletére. Batthyaneum, Ms. I.3. [Cântece liturgice în cinstea lui Joannes da Capestrano. Biblioteca Batthyaneum, Ms. I.3.] In: „Zenetudományi írások” 1998, Bukarest-Budapest, 1999, p. 52-5
Siebenbürgische mittelalterliche katholische Gradualkodizes, Református Szemle, Kolozsvár, 4/2011, p. 417-422
Plainchant and Medieval Poetry in Transylvanian Manuscripts. Some Aspects. In: Franz Karl Praßl, Piotr Tarlinski (Hgs.), The Future of the Hymnbook. Zukunft des Gesangbuchp. IAH-Bulletin 40 (2012), Kongressbericht der 26. IAH-Studientagung in Timişoara, 24.-29. Juli 2011, Graz – Opole 2013, p. 421-431.
Monodia liturgică medievală de tradiţie apuseană, în surse manuscrise româneşti. In: Studii de sinteză. 2011-2012, p. 380-408, Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică, București, 2013 10). 7.Today’s Online Publishing Possibilities for Musicologists, in: TIC, ed. Nelida Nedelcuț, MediaMusica, Cluj-Napoca, 2015, p. 23-29
L’éducation musicale dans la Transylvanie Médiévale, Studia Musica UBB, 2/2016, ISSN 1844-4369, p. 33-46.
Egy egykor csíki ferences használatban volt 1596-os velencei Antiphonarium. Társszerző Kurta József. In: A Csíki Székely Múzeum Évkönyve 2010, Csíki Székely Múzeum – Pro-Print Könyvkiadó, Csíkszereda, 2010, p. 323-330
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