Archive of the Konstantinos A. Psachos Music Library (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Pergamos - Library and Information Center of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Since a very long time I planned to announce this important collection which includes very rare and precious autographs of many important psaltes and Archon pr

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Two Music Manuscripts at the Historical Archive Iannis Vlachoiannis

Within the database of the Greek State Archives, there are two rather odd, but also interesting music manuscripts at the Historical Archive "Iannis Vlachoiannis". I would like to thank Charis Kornaros who drew my attention to these manuscripts of the

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Great Mediterranean Composers

http://www.medimuses.gr/book_publications/corpora.html

 

As a European initiative Ottoman composers who used Byzantine neumes, had been transcribed by Kyriakos Kalaitzides and other editors (please note that only Cemil Bey has an entry at the New Grove

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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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2 Müsiki Mecmuası (divans) of the Ottoman Empire - publications of the orient department of the state library Berlin

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek

Or. oct. 3339

fol. 17r

XIX

Or. quart. 1578

fol. 1v

XIX

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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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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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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 by Geert Maessen — Editions dedicated to Ottoman and Orthodox Chant traditions

The programs at Concertzender can be listened online:

099     Oosterse Liturgieën 16 - Pater Dositheos (1912-1991) (1 november 2012)

            ... een blinde pater als lichtend voorbeeld

098     Oosterse Liturgieën 15 - Langs de Via Egnatia (25 oktobe

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La musique des makamlar e sa notation dans les manuscrits de l'Empire Ottomane

Ralf Jäger a fait une belle publication multimédiale sur les variés formes de la notation ensemble avec les musiciens traditionels pour présenter les exemples:

http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/struktur/lehrstuehle_professuren_ressorts/pro

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La modalité particulaire du troparion τὸν σταυρὸν σοῦ

Dans le groupe « Mélos et ses microtones » Neil Moran a discuté ce mélos particulier comme un exemple de Mesos tetartos en MI. En fait, il s’agît d’un autre mélos classifié comme êchos plagios devteros enaphônos selon la signature modale dans les asm

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