Introducing the FUS Faculty: Hrisanta Trebici Marin

Adjunct Professor, Music History

Ph.D. University of Vienna, Austria
M.A. National Music Academy Bucharest, Romania
B.A. National Music Academy Bucharest, Romania

Office: Kaletsch Campus, Faculty Office 2
Phone: +41 91 986 53 23
Email: htrebicimarin@fus.edu

Hrisanta Trebici-Marin is Adjunct Professor of Music History at Franklin University Switzerland. A Senior Researcher in Ancient and Modern Music, a music consultant and advisor, Dr. Marin is the author of numerous books and essays, articles and newspaper music reviews. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has received fellowships at Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville and the University of Copenhagen/Institute of Greek and Latin Medieval Philology. Her area of specialization includes the research and transcription in modern notation of Byzantine and post-Byzantine musical manuscripts, determination of their origins and their dating. As a music consultant and program developer, she is associated since 2011 with the Cantus Mundi National Program for children in Romania. She currently trains the instructors for this educational project, based on music as a means to promote social integration.

2024-2025 Courses

ITA 255	Italian through Opera	FALL 2024
Learning Italian through Opera is a unique and enriching experience. The Italian language is deeply intertwined with the world of opera, and studying it through this lens can provide students with cultural insights, linguistic nuances, and a heightened appreciation for both language and music. Through comparative listening exercises, reading and discussion, students will enhance their Italian language skills while gaining insight into the historical and social contexts of Italian Opera. With a focus on a number of famous operas like La Traviata, Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville and La Bohème, the course includes study of specific arias, acting out scenes and attendance of live opera performances and related cultural events. This course carries a supplemental fee.
ITA 355	Italian through Opera	FALL 2024
Learning Italian through Opera is a unique and enriching experience. The Italian language is deeply intertwined with the world of opera, and studying it through this lens can provide students with cultural insights, linguistic nuances, and a heightened appreciation for both language and music. Through comparative listening exercises, reading and discussion, students will enhance their Italian language skills while gaining insight into the historical and social contexts of Italian Opera. With a focus on a number of famous operas like La Traviata, Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville and La Bohème, the course includes study of specific arias, acting out scenes and attendance of live opera performances and related cultural events. This course carries a supplemental fee.
MUS 213	Classical Music in Film	FALL 2024
The purpose of the course is to explore and understand the use of classical music in art movies. From Bach to Mahler and from D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, classical music has been used as leitmotiv and supporting narrative in film. Based on the chronology of music history and the use of classical music in period movies, the course analyzes the way in which specific pieces of music have contributed to some of the greatest films of the past. Musical and film extracts will be viewed and discussed. This course carries a supplemental fee.
MUS 217	Masterpieces of Western Classical Music	SPRING 2025
Based on classical music milestones, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, the course provides the students with the basic elements needed in order to learn active listening and to develop critical and comparative skills. It explains the various genres from symphonic music to opera, offering the students the tools to better understand the various idioms in Western music, and the historical and cultural context of their creation. The use of the "great works" will also create a cultural portfolio for students and introduce them to the debates related to the character and purposes of music, as well as to its chronological evolution.
MUS 218	Music and Politics: From the French Revolution to Communism	SUMMER 2025
This course explores the direct relationship between significant historical events and their effects on musical creation. The analysis of specific works will offer the opportunity to understand the direct impact politics has on art. Important events throughout the 19th and the 20th century will be presented through the impact they had in music history. A special section is dedicated to censorship and discrimination focusing on music written and performed under totalitarian rule. From the Entartete Musik (degenerate music), discriminated against by the Nazis, to John Adams’ opera Nixon in China, which marked the end of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the course investigates the way in which music was able to follow its own creative path.

Publications:

Books:

Trebici-Marin, H. Codex Vindobonensis Theologicus Graecus 33, The Typology of the Liturgical Manuscript, Editura Muzicala, Bucharest, 2021.

Liviu Brumariu, Hrisanta Trebici Marin, History of Music, volume I, Editura Grafoart, Bucharest 2021

Grigore Constantinescu, Liviu Brumariu, Hrisanta Trebici Marin, History of Music, volume II, Editura Grafoart, Bucharest 2021.

Trebici-Marin, H. History of Music and Music Forms vol. I – II , Editura Didactica si Pedagogica, Bucharest, 1995.

Trebici-Marin, H. The Theoretical Treatise of the Manuscript Mathimatarion III-88 Introduction,Transcription,Comments, UCMR Academic Press, Bucharest, Romania, 1986.

Trebici-Marin, H. The Anastasimatarion from Cluj-Napoca, Ms.1106 – Relations and Structures in theRomanian Post-Byzantine Music, Editura Muzicala, Bucharest, 1985.

Trebici-Marin, H. The Manuscript Sticherarion IV-39, Monumenta, Facsimilae et Transcripta, UCMR Academic Press, Bucharest, Romania, 1985.

Research Articles and Proceedings:

A New Approach to the Form of the Byzantine Chant – Washington, International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 1986.

Preliminary Report on the Study of Kekragaria- SCIA, tome XXXII, Romanian Academy of Science Press, Bucharest, 1985.

The Relation between Text and Melodical-Rythmical Formulas - an element of continuity in Romanian Church Music, (I), JÖB 32/7, Vienna, 1981; (II), MAEO Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1985.

Recherche de la musique psaltique,en tant que domaine de la musicologie contemporaine, Revue Roumaine d’Histoire de l'Art, tome XXI, Romanian Academy of Science Press, Bucharest, 1984.

Awards and Honors:

Franklin University Switzerland, Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2022

Professional Associations:

Cantus Mundi National Program Romania, - Music Consulting / Program Developer

Österrechische Byzantinische Gesellschaft, - Member

National Guild of Composers and Musicologists of Romania (UCMR), - Member

International Association of Byzantine Studies, - Supporting Member