
At the end of 2011, the series of restitutions offered by Editura Muzicală under the title "Izvoare ale muzicii românești" was supplemented with a book whose importance and consistency captures the attention of anyone interested in the history of Romanian music and, in particular, of the Byzantine music developed on the Romanian territory: the second volume of the Anastasimatarion by Mihalache Moldovlahul. The new publication bears the signature of the famous Byzantinologist Archdeacon Ph.D. Sebastian Barbu-Bucur and completes the volume published in 2008, which includes the anastasima hymns in the first four modes[1]. The importance of this Anastasimatarion for the continuation of the process of Romanianization of the Orthodox Church chant is outstanding and confers the recent publication the privileged status of a bibliography of major importance for the understanding of the changes undergone by the music of Byzantine tradition in the 18thcentury.
[1] Mihalache Moldovlahul, Anastasimatar I, Series "Izvoare ale muzicii românești", vol. XII A, Editura Muzicală, Bucharest, 2008, 575 p.