I have phantastic news for scholars occupied with Greek music palæography!
Without having changed the general URL I would like to announce, that all links of the Monumenta had been slightly changed.
https://www.igl.ku.dk/MMB/
The new homepage has no l
Discussion
After Oliver Strunk’s study of the Byzantine tonal system in 1942, mainly based on Late Byzantine sources of the Papadikai, there has been very few resonance around Christian Thodberg’s study of the tonal system of the kontakarion 60 years
Read more…Verso side with palimpsest, beginning of the kontakarion with 1 September (f.53r)
XIII-XIV • Kontakarion-Psaltikon (ff.1r-126r) and Nenanismata (f.127v), the second contrasted reproduction makes a hidden palimpsest visible (patriarchal wri
Read more…Kondak-podoben for Christmas vigil Дѣва дньсь · прѣвѣчьнаго слова in Glas 3
(its model, the Christmas kondak дѣва дньсь пребогата, is missing)
XIII • Sinodal’ny Kondakar’ (kondakar’: mineya from January to December with illumination for Septemb
Read more…Within the Synodal collection at the Library of the State Historical Museum (гим or GIM as abbreviation for Государственный исторический музей, or RUS-Mim according to RISM) there are 10 menaia (except those for March and July) which are as complete
Read more…Also concerning the book kontakarion the collection of Sinai is exceptional, since it has a great variety of books which has only recently be studied by musicologists as well. Especially the unnotated kondakaria-tropologia are interesting, because th
Read more…Moscow, Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека)
Illumination of the Bogurodžice (Theotokos) healing the arm of Saint John of Damascus (f. 1v)
preceding the miney of the kondakar (f. 2r)
about 1200 (with later added
Read more…As promised I upload Kenneth Levy's contribution to Ladislav Mokrý's conference “Anfänge der slavischen Musik” at Bratislava in August 1964 which was published in exactly the same year like Constantin Floros' publication dedicated to the same notatio
Read more…My dear colleague Tatiana Švets, teaching Old Russian chant at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, published the whole manuscript Saint-Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Ms. Q.п.I.32 as a virtual exhibition together with a detailed description of
Read more…Just about the collection of Georgian manuscripts, Stig Frøyshov (2012, 236) wrote:
Read more…The ancient collection counts today 86 codices. It was photographed in its entirety in 1950 by an expedition initiated by the American Library of Congress.
A significan
The paper concerns an early chapter in the history of medieval Slavic liturgy and music. Specifically, it addresses the appropriatio
Read more…Psalmverses of the Allelouiarion in echos plagios tetartos, the refrain is written out in red ink (fol. 43)
late XIII • incomplete Kontakarion in short psaltikon style with Middle Byzantine round notation (monastic oktoechos notation of the S
Read more…National and University Library "St. Kliment of Ohrid", Skopje (Macedonia) (Old Church Slavonic Manuscripts)
Akafist
“Akafist” is a particular Slavonic genre which was inspired by t
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