EXTENSION OF CONFERENCE DEADLINES
The Organizing Committee of the Conference announces that the deadline for submission of proposals for the 3rd International Musicological and Psaltic Conference on Psaltic Art of the Department of Psaltic Art and Musicology of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies was extended. A new deadline will expire on Friday, February 23, 2018, while The Scientific Committee of the Congress is going to announce the
adoption of the proposals no later than Friday, March 2, 2018.
The Organizing Committee of the Conference
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3rd International Musicological and Psaltic Conference on Psaltic Art
of the Department of Psaltic Art and Musicology of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies
«…ἐν ἐπιγνώσει ὑμνοῦντας Σε…»
(=chanting consciously in praise to Thee)
Prerequisites and Skills for Sacred Chanting in Orthodox Worship
Wednesday, May 30 (evening) – Saturday, June 2 (afteroon), 2018
Thessaly Conference Center – Melissiatika, Volos, Greece
The topic of the Conference was chosen according to Department’s principle that its meetings must have an interdisciplinary approach, open to all possible scientific and artistic approaches to the study of Psaltiki, i.e. the art of Orthodox chanting, in order to give birth to productive reflection, innovative ideas and fruitful collaborations among scientists of the same or differnet disciplines, who are interested to include the chanting art of the Byzantine tradition, of older or newer times, in their research interests.
Given the approach above, the term “prerequisites” can and must be understood in the broadest possible way, thus highlighting the interdisciplinary character of the Conference. In this frame, the “prerequisites” can have a theological orientation (e.g. dogmatic or moral), liturgical (e.g. ceremonial, concerning the Typicon), philological (concerning the language of the hymnography), vocal (in terms of technique), theoretical (regarding the knowledge of the theory, the notation, the rhythm etc), aesthetical and in general artistic, and in the last years, musicological as well.
But beyond the prerequisites for the better performance of the sacred chanting, always there must be a research and examination of broader possible skills, which can contribute to the training of the bearers of the art of Psaltiki, and thus to the more essential interaction of the chanting during the holy worship. In this way, further knowledge of music (folk or traditional, West-European, secular or of any other kind) as well as virtuosity in musical instruments, studies of musicology (e.g. musical palaeography, history of music etc), education in pedagogics, psychology, sociology and social anthropology, history and even in positive sciences (physics, mathematics, medicine, comuter science etc) can as well act as tools for the research and improvement of the art of sacerd chanting, and also can borrow from the art of chanting tools for broadening and supporting of their own activities.
The Conference will take place in the Conference Center of the Holy Metropolis of Demetrias, in Melissiatika, Volos, Greece, between May 30th (official opening in the evening) and June 2nd (official closing in the afternoon), 2018. Exact times will be announced after the selection of papers.
The official opening of the Conference will be devoted to the composing and researching work of the “Archon Mousicodidaskalos (Leading Music Theacher) of the Great Church of Christ”, Protopsaltis Kyriazis (Zachos) Nikoleris.
Proposals for contribution in the Conference must be preferably submitted to the Organizing Committee, to the e-mail address tomeaspsaltikis@gmail.com, not later than Friday, February 23rd, 2018. Proposals must include title, abstract and CV of the speaker (all together not exceeding 500 words).
Selection of proposals will be announced by the Scientific Commitee of the Conference, not later than Friday, March 2nd, 2018.
The confirmation of participation, along with the payment of the participation fee, must be not later than Friday, March 30th, 2018.
The Scientific Committee of the Conference consists of the following professors
– Thomas Apostolopoulos, National and Kapodistiran University of Athens, president
– Emmanouil Giannopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
– Michail Stroumbakis, Supreme Patriarchical Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete,
– Konstantinos Ch. Karagounis, Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens – Department of Psaltic Art of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies.
Presentations of individual papers must not be longer than 20 minutes and will be followed by a short 10-minute discussion.
Official languages of the conference will be Greek and English. There will be NO translation.