oktoechos (32)
The Byzantine synthesis between the tropes' names and the oktoechos system
The Homepage of Emmanouil Giannopoulos
Just as a welcome of one of the new members here, I would like to recommend the homepage by Emmanouil Giannopoulos, which is very rich of material concerning studies of Byzantine and Orthodox Chant as well as concerning his teaching material for Gree
Read more…Svetlana Kujumdžieva: "The Early Oktoechoi" (Sofia 2013)
Current notice (28 January 2018) at the Bulgarian Academy of Science:
Read more…La liturgie à Chypre (croisement de la culture byzantine et latine)
* Comme nous le savons, Chypre est un croisement de la culture byzantine et latine.
Mais que savons nous de la liturgie et du chant à Chypre aussi bien dans l'église latine que grecque ?
Avons nous des sources manuscrites ? (antiphonaire, graduel, ritu
Read more…Peter Jeffery about the "Oktoechos as the Origins of the Byzantine Musical Tradition"
Peter Jeffery's Lecture at Axion Estin Foundation held at White Plains
Jeffery, Peter, 2001. The Earliest Oktōēchoi : The Role of Jerusalem and Palestine in the Beginnings of Modal Ordering. In The study of medieval chant : paths and bridges, East and
Read more…Stig Simeon Frøyshov: About the Earliest Evidence concerning the Monastic and the Cathedral Rite of Jerusalem
Please have a look on a paper which has been finally published last year:
Introduction
The scholarly interest of the liturgy of Jerusalem resides in at least three points.
First, the Hagiopolite liturgy was central among the various rites observed in th
Read more…Musicology Today Online 12 (2012): Musica sacra I
The reconstruction of medieval and post-medieval sacred musical practices – especially European ones – still represents a true challenge to contemporary musicologists and liturgists. The studies undertaken in this field during rec
Read more…Doxastikon oktaechon Θεαρχίω νεύματι
This Doxastikon, which has to be performed now for the Vesper of the dormition of Theotokos, is one of the oldest chants in the book Sticherarion whose melos passes through all the eight echoi and finally returns to the first (α'—πλ α'—β—πλ β'—γ'—υαρ
Read more…La psalmodie de l'échos varys
La psalmodie byzantine était publiée dans un essay d'Oliver Strunk:
Strunk, W. O., 1960. 'The Antiphons of the Oktoechos', dans: A Musicological Offering to Otto Kinkeldey upon the Occasion of His 80th Anniversary, JAMS 13, 50-67, url: http://www.scri
Read more…The earliest sources of the hymn repertory in the book Great Oktoechos
Neil Moran wrote:
Read more…Incidentally Svetlana Kumjudjieva mentioned that Troelsgard recently presented many sources dating from the 4th/5th centuries on with modal designations in the oldest papyri. From her research she concludes that the book of the Okto
Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtar (Universitätsbibliothek) Cod. Slav. 3.
Budapest, Egyetemi Könyvtar (Universitätsbibliothek)
XVII · Oktoechos (Oktoich, Osmoglasnik) without musical notation
Chant (Stichiri, Irmosi) in glas 3 (fol. 36v)
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