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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

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Ioannis Arvanitis' Reconstruction of Byzantine Chant

Please have a look at the recent discussion between Neil Moran and Alexander Lingas about the virtual reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia, and at the performance of Italo-Byzantine Chant by Ioannis Arvanitis and his Ensemble Hagiopolites.

Ioannis Arvan

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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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

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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The Digital Library of the Stavropoleos Monastery at Bucharest

I highly recommend a visit on this page which offers plenty of chant manuscripts in different languages (18th-20th century). Unfortunately this website does no longer exist and these links are no longer available. I leave the list, so that you can co

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Heirmologion and Triodion of the Leimonos Monastery in Lesvos online

Digital Library of the Leimonos Monastery:

http://84.205.233.134/library/xeirografa_en.php

For instance two chant manuscripts:

Ms. Lesbiacus Leimonos 31

Triodion of the Leimonos Monastery, parts with Coislin notation (12th century)

Ms. Lesbiacus Leimonos

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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An expedition to Saint Catherine's Monastery in 1950 (the Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Slavonic and Georgian manuscripts of the old collection)

Just about the collection of Georgian manuscripts, Stig Frøyshov (2012, 236) wrote:

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

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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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

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Orthodox Easter Special: The Blagoveščenskiy Kondakar online

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

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Reconstructions of the Byzantine Cathedral Rite

Please have a look on the discussion of the videos made by a performance of Capella romana in a virtual reconstruction of the Constantinopolitan Hagia Sophia.

There have been numerous studies of the rite which belongs to this cathedral, and the very u

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Easter Special: The Greek Tropologia of the Sinai Collection (Lavra tes Hagias Ekaterinas)

Please note that today is Palm Sunday according to the Orthodox (revised Julian) calendar. Thus, you can start right now with the tropologion Codex sinaiticus graecus 759 (see below).

The tropologion developed all the features of the sticherarion and

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Heirmologion Fragment in Old Byzantine Notation within a Collection (F-Pn Supplément grec 1284)

Suppl. grec 1284, ff. 2-3 & 26

Page of a heirmologion with odes 4 of echos tritos (fol. 2r)

XII • Fragment (bifolio) of an heirmologion (echos tritos section) with relatively developed Coislin notation (not Constantinopolitan!) in the ode order (OdO) f

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Festschrift-Übergabe Gerda Wolfram – Wien –

Festschrift-Übergabe Gerda Wolfram – Wien –Festschrift-Übergabe Gerda Wolfram – Wien –

Forschungsgruppe „Cantus Planus“ der internationalen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR6_yFD1NRM

Started by Neil Moran

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Three 17th-century Orthodox chant manuscripts of the British Library collection have been recently published

During the last months another Heirmologion and two kalophonic manuscripts (an incomplete Menaion of the a Sticherarion kalophonikon and a fragment of a Mathematarion) of the British Library have been published on the pages of "Digitised Manuscripts"

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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signum magnum

Je cherche une pièce en grec parlant du chapitre XII de l'Apocalypse -και σημειον μεγα- (la vision de la femme et le dragon).

Je vous remercie d'avance pour votre aide.

Started by Etienne STOFFEL

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Ant. Responsum accepit GT 541. Origin Byzantine?

Studying several GREG versions of this antiphon I noticed the difference in treating the Interpunktionsmelismen. Some versions lack them completely (like Aq. sources as Albi and Yrieix) other seem to vary. There are even differences between sources l

Started by franco ackermans

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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

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Three Anthologies of Byzantine composers written around Ioannes Trapezountios (1730s)

Datation possible to the new appendix at the beginning of Ms. 334 which mentions Ioannes the Protopsaltes (1730s), who was until 1734/1736 still Lampadarios. The Kratematarion (Ms. 336) mentions one composer just as "Lampadarios" and only once as "Io

Started by Oliver Gerlach

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Partition cyrillique

Bonsoir,

J'aimerais avoir de plus amples informations sur ce manuscrit car il pourrait contenir des neumes (ou simplement des accents).

Merci d'avance pour vos informations.

Started by Miguel Baptista

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Fragments grecs notés de la Vallicelliana

N'étant pas expert en liturgie byzantine, je laisse le soin au byzantinistes de commenter !

Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana (I-Rv)

Ms B 80
Garde inférieur, fragment noté ▪ Internet culturale

Ms.B 86
Garde supérieur et inférieur fragment grec noté ▪ Int

Started by Dominique Gatté

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Recent Publications about the Slavonic Kondakar

Artamonova, Y., 2013. Kondakarion Chant: Trying to Restore the Modal Patterns. Musicology today, 16.

Floros, C. & Moran, N.K., 2009. The Origins of Russian Music - Introduction to the Kondakarian Notation, Frankfurt, M. [u.a.]: Lang.

Byzantine chant and all Oriental, Caucasian and Slavonic liturgies

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Stig Simeon Frøyshov: About the Earliest Evidence concerning the Monastic and the Cathedral Rite of Jerusalem

Ioannis Arvanitis' Reconstruction of Byzantine Chant

Sufi Music of the Bektashi Order

The Digital Library of the Stavropoleos Monastery at Bucharest

Heirmologion and Triodion of the Leimonos Monastery in Lesvos online

An expedition to Saint Catherine's Monastery in 1950 (the Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Slavonic and Georgian manuscripts of the old collection)

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

Orthodox Easter Special: The Blagoveščenskiy Kondakar online

Reconstructions of the Byzantine Cathedral Rite

Easter Special: The Greek Tropologia of the Sinai Collection (Lavra tes Hagias Ekaterinas)

Heirmologion Fragment in Old Byzantine Notation within a Collection (F-Pn Supplément grec 1284)

Festschrift-Übergabe Gerda Wolfram – Wien –

Three 17th-century Orthodox chant manuscripts of the British Library collection have been recently published

signum magnum

Ant. Responsum accepit GT 541. Origin Byzantine?

Two Music Manuscripts at the Historical Archive Iannis Vlachoiannis

Three Anthologies of Byzantine composers written around Ioannes Trapezountios (1730s)

Partition cyrillique

Fragments grecs notés de la Vallicelliana

Recent Publications about the Slavonic Kondakar

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