Development of stage costumes for singers of pop and folk music

Abstract

The stage costume is an attribute that complements the performer through shape, color, accents, impressions and adds aesthetic value to the musical piece. The history of the stage costume features several important stages, rich in characteristics dictated by society's morals, culture, aesthetic canons and religious dogmas. Reflected in the historical periods analyzed, such as: antiquity, the middle ages, the renaissance, they profiled the necessary characteristics for the development of the stage costume of today. The stage costume for performers of light and popular music capitalizes and promotes the qualities of the musical pieces, but also the ethnic traditions of the folk costume. The cut, the shape, the silhouette, the ornament motifs of the folk costume, used as sources, accentuated by chromatic contrast, the stylization of the dimensions and proportions of the ornament, adapted to the message of the musical piece, the morphological characteristics and the charisma of the performer, all together will conclude the concept of the stage costume . The article will present the stages of developing the stage costume for performers of pop and folk music in the example of the outfits developed for Cornelia Ştefăneţ.