Εις μνήμην Λυκούργος Αγγελόπουλου: Recordings of Father Dionysios Firfiris

In this recording you can experience Lykourgos Angelopoulos as Isokratis and field researcher at Mount Athos. His recording of Dionysios Firfiris who sings the kalophonic Triadika of the Polyeleos according to a realisation by Theodoros Phokaeos in t

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Le système musical de l’Eglise Grecque

D. Hugues Gaisser « Le système musical de l’Eglise Grecque » Revue Bénédictine Tome XVIII – 1901 44-65 ; 184-207

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Iviron 1203 secular song

Dear friends,

I look for a song from MS Iviron 1203

ΘΡΗΝΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΛΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΠΟΣΝΑΣ (Lament For The Conquest Of Bosna).

Can you help me to find it in original notation?

 

THANK YOU!!!

 

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Komitas: a Biographical Mixtape (Revival of Armenian Church Music)

The biography and intellectual legacy of Komitas Vardapet, an orphan from Kütahya who became one of the foremost Armenian intellectuals of his day, is firmly embedded within Armenian national lore. Yet, seldom has it been told as an Ottoman story. Th

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Interview with Owen Wright

Please have a look at the interview by Carolyn Landau with Owen Wright (BL sound archive):

http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Interviews-with-ethnomusicologists/025M-C1397X0005XX-0001V0

 

See also his page:

http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.a

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Syriac liturgical music at the Sound Archive of the British Library

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Ferhat Arslan about Kurdish Music (Bonum est)

Tomorrow between 6 and 7 pm, you can listen to the second contribution by Ferhat Arslan at Bonum est (Geert Maessen's channel at Concertzender Amsterdam). This time it will be about Kurdish Music. This edition was as usual realised and translated by

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Different traditions of the ekphonetic style (scriptural readings)

Please have a look at this page at Analogion.com, where you can download (historical) recordings from different local schools:

http://analogion.com/site/html/EkphoneticStyle.html

A discussion between Konstantinos Terzopoulos and Ioannis Arvanitis and s

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Deniza Popova & Oliver Gerlach: Epitaph for Father Stiliyan, Typikar of the Bačkovo Monastery

I would like to inform you, that the Bulgarien-Jahrbuch 2012 is finally online for open access:

doi:10.3726/b12817

 

With my dear friend and colleague Deniza Popova, we published some of our field recordings made in 2002 in Bačkovo and I transcribed his

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Sephardic recitation of the Torah and the Pentateuch

I thank Frédéric Tavernier-Vellas for communicating the following link, where you can listen and download mp3 files of field recordings made of famous hazzanot:

http://parachat.free.fr/

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International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony (Tbilisi, Georgia)

See:

http://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/

"Sacred Music":

http://polyphony.ge/en/georgia/georgian-sacred-music/history/

Symposiums:

http://symposium.polyphony.ge/en/history/

 

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The Koledari — Christmas special 2013

Are you bored by the domestic version of Christmas carols which bother the ears, whereever you make a step?

You should try some Koledo songs!

 

In all countries, where a Slavonic language is spoken or was spoken (Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Be

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Les actes des colloques sur la théorie et l'histoire de la monodie à Vienne

J'ai déjà écrit sur les contributions interdisciplinaires d' Andreas Pfisterer (discussion du livre de James McKinnon).

Dans les dernières trois années toutes les actes des colloques biennales sont publiés. Ici, il y a un blog où vous trouvez les couv

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Crossroads: Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity – Proceedings released with open access

The whole pdf for download: http://crossroads.mus.auth.gr/proceedings/

The conference was about everything, so I marked for you all issues which can be
somehow relevant to the focus of this group:

 

Contents

Evi Nika-Sampson – Crossroads | Greece as an i

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Portrait Otec Stiliyan of the Bačkovo Monastery

This evening I would like to present you Father Stiliyan, a monk of the Bačkovo Monastery who was as a typikar responsible for the divine services in this monastery of the Rhodope Mountains.

You can listen to a complete recording which we made of the

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Samuel Benaroya et les Mafitirim d'Edirne

Portrait Samuel Benaroya chez Concertzender Amsterdam

Ce soir au concertzender ou plus tard, nous voudrons vous inviter écouter l'art des confrèries sepharades, les "Maftirim". Ils ont cultivé le chant synagogale selon les genres ottomanes. Cette epis

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Coptic Chant Records at the Library of Congress

Le "Library of Congress" nous offre quelques  reproductions.

Essayez la déscription bizzare par Guillaume-André Villoteau. Il a testifié 10 modes (Oktoechos et 2 phthorai?):

http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=villoteau+guillaume+andre

Au moins son exemple fai

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Sufi Music of the Mevlevi Order: "Les derviches tourneurs"

Today or the following days you might listen to Dede Efendi's ayin in makam sabâ, which is usually performed with a peşrev by the Tambur player Osman Bey, a descendant of the Ağa dynasty of musicians, which composed an earlier version of Sabâ ayin-ı

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Sufi Music of the Bektashi Order

I would like to announce my second edition at Geert Maessen's "Bonum est". This time in collaboration with Ferhat Arslan:

http://www.concertzender.nl/programmagids.php?date=2013-02-07&month=1&detail=61674

We expect the first broadcast at 6 pm.

 

Please j

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Bonum est about the Old Patriarchal School of Istanbul

January 10: Eastern Liturgies 17 - Iakovos Nafpliotis (1864-1942)

And finally I also would like to announce my first collaboration with Geert Maessen.

We had a struggle with it, because it was originally dedicated to Iakovos Nafpliotis, but they did no

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