Byzantine Music
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Byzantine Music Resources Dimitri Koubaroulis PhD, DipByzMus
Last updated: 28 Apr 2004 |
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Greek Ecclesiastical Music, also called Byzantine Music, is the musical system traditionally used in most parishes of the Greek Orthodox Church. It is transmitted from generation to generation through written and oral means. In these pages, we present issues and resources related to Greek Ecclesiastical Music.
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Now contains the pdf paper proceedings!!
"We know specifically that three Athonite scriptoria - at the Great Lavra, at Vatopedi, and at Iviron - produced manuscripts with musical signs well before the first quarter of the 11th century and these manuscripts constitute some of mankind’s very earliest specimens of musical notation at all - whether in the East or in the West" (Dimitri Conomos, extract from this paper)
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Contents:
Typikon (Order/Content of Services)
The international discussion group on Typikon The Protheoria of the Violakis Typikon in English (Fr Konstantinos Terzopoulos) The Typikon of the Agrypnia (Vigil) (Archim. Dositheos) |
Musical Style ('Yphos')
Musicological debate in cmkon.org Patriarchal style described at cmkon.org Patriarchal style described by M. Hatzigiakoumis My own description: Patriarchicon yphos is a musical expression influenced by the Patriarchal chanters. In brief, it consists of the following elements:
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Liturgical Texts
Greek (Fr. Leo Schefe) Greek English (goarch.org) |
Psaltai (chanters, performers)
Patriarchal Iakovos Nafpliotis (Patriarchate) Konstantinos Priggos (Patriarchate) Leonidas Asteris (Patriarchate) Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas (Patriarchate) (more samples) Vasilios Emmanouilides (Patriarchate) Ioannis Xariatides (Patriarchate) (more audio samples) Demosthenes Paikopoulos (Patriarchate) (interview) Andreas Petroxeilos (Patriarchate) (dedicated site) Vasilios Nikolaidis (Patriarchate) Fr Georgios Tsetsis (Patriarchate) (more audio samples) N. Danielides (Patriarchate) Fr Panagiotis Tsinaras (Patriarchate) Archons L. Angelopoulos (Athens) Athanasios Karamanis (Thessaloniki) Harilaos Taliadoros (Thessaloniki) (more info, and audio samples) L. Petrides (Thessaloniki) Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Stokholm) Antonios Parizianos (Constantinople) Avraam Efthimiades (Thessaloniki) Georgios Tsatsaronis (Athens) Konstantinos Panas (Patras) Mt Athos Fr Daniel Danielides Fr Thomas (Thomades) Fr Stephanos Danielides Fr Maximos Vatopedinos Fr Dionysios Firfiris Fr Antypas Dochiarites Fr Amfilochios Dochiarites Fr Gabriel Magavos Fr Pateleimon Kartsonas Fr Spyridon Others Dimitri Magouris (Constantinople) Georgios Karakasis (Damascus) Elias Bogdanopoulos (Patras) Leonidas Sfikas (Athens, Chios) Dimitri Kalomoiris (Athens) Dimitri Houpas (Athens) Pavlos Fortomas (Athens) Katerina Makiej (US) Ioannis Arvanitis (Athens) Fotis Ketsetzis (US) Vasilios Katsifis (Athens) Simon Karas (Athens) Georgios Remoundos (Athens) Konstantinos Bilalis (Athens) Konstantinos Papathanassiou (Athens) Georgios Bilalis (New York) Chrysanthos Theodosopoulos (Thessaloniki) Konstantinos Zarakovites (Athens) Georgios Hatzihronoglou (Athens) (more audio samples) Theodoros Vasileiou (Athens) Theodoros Vasilikos (Athens) (audio samples) Stamatios Kissas (Athens) Theodoulos Kallinikos (Cyprus) Mathaios Tsamkiranis (Kavala) Emmanouel Xatzimarkos (Volos) Dimitrios Angelopoulos () Xatzis Staikos () Nikolaos Konstantinopoulos () Konstantinos Lagouros (Canada) Nikolaos Miliones (Larissa) Athanassios Vourlis (Athens) Petros Patras (Athens) Fr Chris Christodoulou (Piraeus) Stylianos Tsilivides () Nikolaos Tyrovolis () Kallistratos Kofopoulos Spyridon Maidanoglou () Marie Keyrouz (Syria) Eleftherios Georgiades (Constantinople) Savvas Avramides () Athanassios Petas (Piraeus) Spyridon Peristeris () Georgios Sarris () Georgios Syrkas (Athens) Konstantinos Kalampokas (Chios) Stelakis Perpiniadis (Constantinople) Xristos Kromydas (Constantinople) Xristos Spiliopoulos (Patras) (one of his manuscripts) |
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Choirs
Simon Karas Choir (Athens, S. Karas) Greek Byzantine Choir (Athens, L. Angelopoulos) (A typical concert program) (audio samples) Capella Romana (Portland, A. Lingas) Romeiko (New York, G. Bilalis) Maistores (Athens, G. Stathis) (more info) (audio samples) Melodountes (Athens, K. Bilalis) Hagiopolites (Athens, I. Arvanites) University Choir of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, A. Alygizakis) Choir of Thessaloniki (H. Taliadoros) Choir of Herakleion Crete (Herakleion, I. Tserevelakis) Choir of the Musical Syllogos of Munich (Munich, P. Anagnostou) Byzantine Choir (Athens, T. Vasilikos) (audio samples) Byzantine Choir (Athens, A. Paivanas) (more samples) Byzantine Choir (Athens, K. Zorbas) Byzantine Choir (Athens, G. Kakoulidis) Byzantine Choir (T. Stanitsas) Byzantine Choir of the Ministry of Finance (Athens, T. Vasilikos) Byzantine Choir of the Athens Cathedral (Athens, S. Peristeris) Byzantine Choir of Agrinio (Agrinio, A. Lanaras) Byzantine Choir of Volos (Volos, M. Meletis) Pittsburgh Byzantine Choir (Pittsburgh, N. Giannoukakis) Orthodox Byzantine Choir (Athens, Μ. Makris) Kalofonarides (Athens, G. Remoundos) Australian Byzantine Choir (Sydney, G. Combis) Friends of Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music of South Australia (Adelaide, E. Fragkoulis) Friends of Constantinople Choir (D. Paikopoulos) Friends of Constantinople Choir (G. Tsaousis) Choir of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi (Christmas Album) Patriarchal Choirs Live (Instanbul, L.Asteris) Athonite Choirs Live (Various) St. Romanos the Melodist Choir (Syria) St. John of Damaskus Byzantine Choir (Syria) Antiochian Orthodox Boston Byzantine Choir (Boston) Holy Cross Theological College Choir (Boston, F. Ketsetzis) Choir Ioannis Koukouzelis (M. Daskalakis) Choir of Zoe Brotherhood (Athens) Choir of Estia (Athens, T. Vasileiou) Choir of St George Rosebay (Sydney, Australia) Choir of the Female Monastery of Ormylia (Chalkidiki, Greece) Ensemble of the Holy Monastery of Docheiariou (Mr Athos) Byzantine Music Ensemble (Athens, K. Bilalis-K. Papathanassiou) Byzantion (Basileus) Choir (Romania) Georgian Choir () Bulgarian Choir () Coptic Choir () |
History
Georgios Papadopoulos, A Historical Overview of Ecclesiastical Music (in Greek) History information On the history of Byzantine music (P. Procopiou) Byzantine Chant: Past and Present (D. Conomos) Introduction to Byzantine Music History (K. Fotopoulos) |
Technology and GEM
A recording studio specialising in Byzantine music (Euripides Moudanidis, Sydney, Australia) Byzantini Kalamos Electronic reading and writing of Byzantine music (EM Polytechnic Greece) A computer system that does optical Byzantine character recognition and a computer font set to write it: Attempt to reproduce Byzantine music scales with electronic organ Ephesios Byzantine music fonts Fonts for byzantine music Isocrates |
A manuscript for the Romanian monastery of Putna |
Bibliography
Many Byzantine Music publications at the on-line bookstore www.mathisis.com A detailed list of published old Byzantine music books A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography. Second Edition, Egon Wellesz, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1997 (reprint of 1949 edition). Bilbiography (G. Anastasiou) |
Learning resources
Byzantine music tutorial (David, Melling, in English) Antiochian tutorial on Byzantine chant with piano Byzantine chant theory and audio files and sheet music in English/western notation Reading psalmodia (part_A part_B) Using technology to teach Byzantine chant Learning Byzantine music in London (UK) |
Research
L. Boulton Collection of Byzantine Chants (Harvard) Institute of Byzantine Musicology (Athens, Greece) Byzantine music resources of the MMB Copenhagen Znameny Chant (Old Russian chant) research Old (1930) recordings of Byzantine music (Melpo Merlie) Musicologist Kaiti Romanou Monuments of Ecclesiastical Music recording series (more info) "Epefanes Simeron" is written in Fourth Mode but most psaltai sing it in Third or in Fourth Plagal. Here is a version in Fourth (Legetos) Plagiazonta The research work of the Greek Byzantine Choir (by M. Adamis) Biography: Musicologist Mixalis Adamis Byzantine musicology professor Anthony Alygizakis (Thessaloniki) Ionian University: Polyphony in Byzantine music (audio samples) Traditional Greek music department of Ionian University (Corfu, Greece) Article on Byzantine and post-Byzantine music manuscripts by G. Stathis (in Greek) A nice collection of old manuscripts from the monastery of Putna in Romania. Images of old Byzantine music manuscripts Mount Athos Manuscripts Digital Library Musicologist Diane Touliatos (article) Gregorios Stathis: Articles on Byzantine music from the magazine of the Church of Greece (in Greek) (partA partB) Archiving project of Athens University (G. Amargianakis) Article: On the ekphonetic notation Old (1924-1930) recordings of Byzantine music (to buy) Personal profile of Ioannis Arvanitis The hymonographic contribution of the Antiochian Church in the 6th and 7th centuries Conference Presentation: Konstantinos Protopsaltes (Fr C. Terzopouloulos) Musicological debate about theoretical and practical issues in cmkon.org Acrticle about music manuscripts by Gregorios Stathis Conference Paper: Here (I. Papathanassiou) Glossary of many terms (including many related to Byzantine Music, in Greek) |
On the correct analysis/expression of the Byzantine Music notation
S. Karas/L. Angelopoulos examples of analyses of the musical signs Book: D. Nerantzis, Contribution to the Correct Interpretation of the Ecclesiastical Melos |
Polyphony/Western influences in the Greek church
The melos of the Zakynthian church (M. Dragoumis) |
The Millenium Celebration of the Holy Monastery of Xenophon, Mt Athos, 1998.
Published in a double CD, see photos and music samples Frs Daniel, Stephanos and Thomas chanting at that service
(photo source: http://inathos.gr) |
Greek Ecclesiastical Music in Australia
Sydney : Australian Byzantine Choir (G. Combis) (While the official site is under construction, see photos and music samples, more music samples here) Adelaide: Association of Friends of Byzantine Ecclesiastical Music of South Australia (E. Fragkoulis) |
Psaltai Societies and Schools
Society of Psaltai of Thessaloniki Psaltai's Association of Messologi, Greece Montreal School of Byzantine chant Americal Society of Byzantine Music and Humnology Munich Chanter's Association |
Pages on Byzantine Music
Fr Konstantinos Terzopoulos Pavlos Papadakis Giannis Spirakis Nectarios Joannou |
External (non-Ecclesiastical) Music
Comparison of maqams/modes Greek folk music & dance resources Greek-Cypriot folk music resources Byzantine carols Laments for the fall of Constantinople (A. Giakoumakis) |
Byzantine Music Conferences
1st Byzantine Musicology Conference Athens, 2000 2nd Byzantine Musicology Conference Athens, 2003 Iasi Byzantine Music Conference Series |
Byzantine Music in Different Languages
Greek Russian Serbian Arabic Bulgarian American English Georgian Serbian Orthodox Chants and Carols Soeur Marie Keyrouz Fairuz (Coptic music) Download Byzantine music samples from various traditions (Greek, Arabic) |
Audio Samples
Friends of Music of Constantinople Byzantine music at the site of the church of Greece Byzantine music at the site of the Greek Orthodox church of America Download some Byzantine music files Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece |
Bookstores
Many Byzantine Music publications at the on-line bookstore www.mathisis.com Nektarios Panagopoulos Booskstore, Athens, Greece Bookstore of the Apostoliki Diakonia, Athens, Greece Tertios Publishing House, Athens, Greece Agion Oros Bookstore, Athens, Greece |
A manuscript decoration drawing of the "wise parallagi (sign reading)" of St. Ioannis Koukouzelis |
Various Resources
A brief (nonetheless interesting) overview of Byzantine Music in Greek by Fr Christos Kyriakopoulos & K. Markos Article: On Byzantine Music (S. Despotis) Short article on Byzantine chant Article: on Byzantine chant (Archim. Athanassios Tsiamakis) A 8th year student essay on Byzantine music (in Greek) Article: Byzantine music as an educational means (in Greek) by A. Vourlis Article: on Byzantine music (Fr Thomas Bambinis) Live recordings from Mount Athos (to buy) K. Zorbas discography (to buy) Reconstructions of secular Byzantine Music (Christodoulos Chalaris) (to buy) Holy Monastery of Vatopedi (Mt Athos) Some of its CD collection (CD1 CD2 CD3) Fr Konstantinos Terzopoulos: Byzantine music in Western notation Audio samples (serbian, greek) (more chants) Audio samples (romanian, greek) Audio samples (romanian) Ivan Moody: A wealth of links related to Ecclesiastical music of various traditions Harmonised Byzantine Music (St John Theologian Choir) Kalophonic Heirmos Damianou Monaxou En Sinaio To Orei page_1 page_2 Kratema Petrou Lambadariou page_1 page_2 page_3 page_4 page_5 page_6 |
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