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…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
Read more…The microfilm of the Bibliothèque nationale, fonds Coislin manuscrit 220. “Coislin notation” was called after this manuscript. The black-and-white reproduction of the film is online since more than a year, but I will soon describe other manuscripts (
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Neumes Collection
Psaltikia
Beginning of the Pentekostarion notated with developed Coislin notation (f. 125v)
Oktoechos notated with intermediate Chartres notation (f. 194v)
XI • Triodion, Pentekostarion and Oktoechos with Coislin (standard repertoire of the moveabe cycl
Read more…Some selected manuscripts of the collection of Moni Iviron:
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…I would like to inform you about this doctoral thesis, because it has not only an accurate codicological description (different hands of scribes and notators, local features of the manuscript like the feast for St Barbaros with an edition and transcr
Read more…Oliver for Andrija Sagić:
Manuscript EBE 928 (National Library of Greece) ONLINE!
This valuable manuscript with Serbian composers from XV c. is finally online.
Polyeleos Раби Господа хвалите име in echos devteros by Hieromonachos Iesaias the Ser
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
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F.п.IV.2
Also relevant for the history of Byzantine chant is the "Tale of years gone by" (Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ) which had been falsely attributed to Nestor the Chronicler who just adjusted the datation of the referred events.
For more infor
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…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
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Doxastikon, ça veut dire seulement Doxastichon, un sticheron chanté avec la doxologie brève, dans ce cas seulement avec la deuzième moitié. L'enregistrement audio c'est chanté selon la re-composition du modèle simple par Petros Péloponn
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…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
Read more…I would like to announce this very useful page, which publishes a collection of important monastic typika in English translation. Each typikon is presented with respect to the current research (the book was published in 2001):
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…Évangéliaire noté avec notation ekphonétique
Voir aussi les deniers manuscrits Grecs en ligne sur Gallica
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