Thomas Apostolopoulos, Kyriakos Kalaitzidis, ed. – Rediscovered Musical Treasures: Exegeses of Secular Oriental Music, Edited and Transcribed from Post-Byzantine Music Manuscripts into Staff Notation (UNMB Press, 2019)

An important line of development of the Direction for Research, Innovation and Information and of the UNMB Press in recent years – in tune with the international trends in research – is the publication of the latest achievements in decrypting and transcribing musical documents. In 2019, researchers Thomas Apostolopoulos and Kyriakos Kalaitzidis edited the English-language volume Rediscovered Musical Treasures: Exegeses of Secular Oriental Music, Edited and Transcribed from Post-Byzantine Music Manuscripts into Staff Notation. The volume is an outcome of the project Musics of the Elites. East and West in Romanian Principalities Royal and Boyar Salons of the 19^th-Century and was released during the Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans (September 2-6, 2019, UNMB) conference organized by the International Musicology Society, leading authority in musicological research. The goal of this publicistic endeavour is to offer researchers, music ensembles and students worldwide the opportunity to study musical traditions, Phanariot and Ottoman genres and works transcribed from 18^th– and 19^th-century Byzantine notations. Performance-wise, due to this initiative (part of a larger European movement in the past decades, the early music revival), audiences will be introduced to these works of a real aesthetic and historical importance.

Nicolae Gheorghiță, ed. – Muzici ale saloanelor din Principatele Române în prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea, [Salon Musics of the Romanian Principalities in the First Half of the 19^th Century], vol. I (recovery of an anonymous manuscript from around 1830; bilingual introductory studies in Romanian and English by Speranța Rădulescu and Dan Buciu, UNMB Press, 2019)

Within the Musics of the Elites. East and West in Romanian Principalities Royal and Boyar Salons of the 19^th-Century project, on the initiative of Nicolae Gheorghiță a first volume was published of the series Salon Musics of the Romanian Principalities in the First Half of the 19^th Century. With bilingual introductory studies by figures in Romanian ethnomusicology and composition, Speranța Rădulescu and Dan Buciu, the collection highlights, through recovering an anonymous manuscript from around 1830 – held by the Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest – an original salon piano repertoire. As with any period manuscript document, its recovery with the goal of printing and reviving it is a complex process requiring vast knowledge and a variety of competences not only in such dedicated fields as the theory of music, musicology, musical stylistics but in linguistics or (musical) palaeography as well.

Nicolae Gheorghiță, ed. – Muzici ale saloanelor din Principatele Române în prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea [Salon Musics of the Romanian Principalities in the First Half of the 19^th Century], vol. II (recovery of an anonymous manuscript from around 1825; bilingual introductory study by Nicolae Gheorghiță, UNMB Press, 2019);

George Enescu – Simfonia a IV-a [Symphony no. 4] (manuscript work, unfinished, completed by Pascal Bentoiu; bilingual introductory study by Dan Dediu, UNMB Press, 2020);

Muzici ale saloanelor din Balcanii secolului al XIX-lea [Salon Musics in 19^th-Century Balkans], collective volume (UNMB Press, 2020)

Musicology Today

Founded in 2010 by Professor Valentina Sandu-Dediu, PhD, Musicology Today, Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest (ISSN 2067-5364; ISSN-L 2067-4717) is a dedicated digital UNMB quarterly in English, German and French. Indexed in some of the most important international databases (EBSCO, 2012; Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2012; ERIH Plus, 2016), Musicology Today is released in print once a year in an edition which brings together the four issues corresponding to a calendar year.

19^th-century music is a recurring theme Musicology Today. For instance, issues 3 and 4/2019 cover the communications in the conference Elites and Their Musics: Music and Music-Making in 19th-Century South-Eastern Europe Salons hosted by UNMB in November 2019. The two issues, grouped around the Salons in 19^th-Century South-East Europe, are made available as Open Access resource on the website of Musicology Today (http://www.musicologytoday.ro/39/editorial.php).