Given the current pandemic context generated by COVID 19, important changes in the way specific subjects to music education are taught emerged, affecting not only the particularities of learning and teaching in individual courses, but also the other courses regarding group learning or theoretical subjects. In this time, emergency remote teaching and learning requires cross-collaboration between instructional, content, and technological teams. Our research examines the students' attitudes toward online education, also presenting proposals for optimization and efficiency. The research was undertaken after an experience of a University semester in a lockdown context, and it aimed at undergraduate and master's degree students from music faculties in Romania. An important result was the mediating role of perceived utility of e-learning methods, perceived utility mediated the associations between compatibility of online methods and satisfaction toward the use of e-learning methods. The perceived compatibility of e-Learning methods with online music education led to a higher perceived utility which, in turn, predicted a higher satisfaction toward e-Learning Although this period accentuated the fear of interaction with others, the anxiety related to the unknown, the intolerance of uncertainty did not predict the satisfaction toward the use of e-learning platforms. In conclusion, more educational initiatives are needed to promote remote teaching methods in music education. In the absence of similar research in our country, we considered that future research on this topic is needed.

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Entering the world of Tibetan spirituality, we observe a multitude of rituals that involve movement and music, used by the monks for various therapeutic and ritualic purposes. The history of Tibetan dance – the Cham tradition - runs in parallel with the history of Buddhism on this territory. Information on these rituals and dances is found in very few Tibetan documents, almost none in European works, and recently in several works printed in English. This can be explained by their oral transmission in special schools, as well as in secret initiations. As the title mentions, in this article, we will discuss the sacred dances of the Tibetans and not the folk ones. Thus, in the following pages, we will mention some of the dances practiced within the sacred rituals by Tibetan monks.

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