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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

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Musicology Today Online 12 (2012): Musica sacra I

“Musica Sacra”

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

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London, British Library, Harley Ms. 5544 (Anastasimatarion of Chrysaphes the New)

Anastasimatarion of Chrysaphes the New (17th century). In London, British Library, Harley Ms. 5544. British Library. Available at: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_5544.

This manuscript is classified as Kekragarion

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Robert Taft "The Evolution of the Byzantine 'Divine Liturgy'" at myriobiblos

Orientalia Christiana Periodica XLIII, Roma 1977, pp. 8-30

Link: http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/taft_evolution.html

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Vendredi Saint spéciale

Entre les vidéos vous trouvez un enrégistrement du Ieri Moni Vatopaidiou (Agios Oros Athos) de l'épitaphe comme on le chante dans tout le monde orthodoxe aujourd'hui.

Pour quelque personnes particulières qui aiment de discuter sur la version médiévale

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La Liturgie des Saints Dons présanctifiés au Mercredi saint

Hier, pour mercredi saint, on fait la liturgie des dons présanctifés (une célébration eucharistique pendant les carêmes) avec l'anti-cherouvikon Νῦν αἱ Δυνάμεις et le koinônikon Γεύσασθε καὶ ἴδετε (regardez aussi la version aquitaine).

Il y a quelque

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The earliest sources of the hymn repertory in the book Great Oktoechos

Neil Moran wrote:

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

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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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Oliver Strunk's "Intonations and Signatures of the Byzantine Modes"

J'imagines qu'il y aura quelque collègues qui aimeront lire cet article dans le contexte de nos discussions sur les tones médiales ou mesoi:

Strunk, Oliver. 1945. «Intonations and Signatures of the Byzantine Modes». The Musical Quarterly 31 (3) (Lug

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Printed Greek and Slavonic chant editions online

Since 1820 chant books and theoretika have been printed in Orthodox traditions. Most of them can be downloaded as pdf:

Please, have a look on the library of Analogion:

http://analogion.com/Library.html

Recently there has been published a page for Slavon

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Ioannis Arvanitis and his choir "Hagiopolites" singing out of medieval sources from Byzantine Italy

As some were interested in this conference in December without any possibility to join it, I would like to announce the two clips at YouTube which were published by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Coro Agiopolites, dir. Ioannes Arvanites):

Sticheron for

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Chant manuscripts of the Gennadios Library (Athens) - some coloured facsimilia

Konstantinos Terzopoulos informed in a publication of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens about the chant manuscripts of its library:

Terzopoulos, K., 2011. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Musical Treasures in the Gennadius Library — Byzantine

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Discussing Nicolae Gheorghiţă's "Byzantine Music Treatises in the Manuscripts Fund in Romania"

Already some time ago I announced the new book by Nicolae Gheorghiţă (published in 2010):

https://gregorian-chant.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-book-about

Who is interested to order the book, might join the announcement of the publisher:

http://www.sophia.

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Università degli Studi di Cassino: "Πύλη — A Gateway to Greek Manuscripts"

http://pyle.it/

Images on web:

http://pyle.it/facsmiles/images-on-the-web/

Pyle is a collaborative tool for teaching and scholarly research in the field of Greek palaeography and codicology; it aims to collect scattered resources from various individual

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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

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Svetlana Poliakova's PhD thesis about "the Triodion Cycle in the Liturgical Praxis in Russia during the Studite Period" online

Author: Svetlana Poliakova (https://gregorian-chant.ning.com/profile/SvetlanaPoliakova or https://gregorian-chant.ning.com/profile/SvetlanaYurievnaPoliakova ?)

Title: "Sin 319 and Voskr 27 and the Triodion Cycle in the Liturgical Praxis in Russia during

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Diane Touliatos and her catalogue of Byzantine chant manuscripts for the National Library of Athens

Presentation at the University of Missouri Saint Louis (12 February 2010):

Extracts at Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=SXPv2jqOS64C

Reviews:

Giannopoulos, E., 2012. Review: Diane Touliatos-Miles, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Man

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Dictionnaire grec-français des noms liturgiques

Léon Clugnet,
Dictionnaire grec-français des noms liturgiques en usage dans l'Église grecque, Paris, 1895

Byzantine chant and all Oriental, Caucasian and Slavonic liturgies

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

Internet exhibition by the Russian National Library

Doxastikon oktaechon Θεαρχίω νεύματι

Musicology Today Online 12 (2012): Musica sacra I

London, British Library, Harley Ms. 5544 (Anastasimatarion of Chrysaphes the New)

Robert Taft "The Evolution of the Byzantine 'Divine Liturgy'" at myriobiblos

Vendredi Saint spéciale

La Liturgie des Saints Dons présanctifiés au Mercredi saint

The earliest sources of the hymn repertory in the book Great Oktoechos

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

Oliver Strunk's "Intonations and Signatures of the Byzantine Modes"

Printed Greek and Slavonic chant editions online

Ioannis Arvanitis and his choir "Hagiopolites" singing out of medieval sources from Byzantine Italy

Chant manuscripts of the Gennadios Library (Athens) - some coloured facsimilia

Discussing Nicolae Gheorghiţă's "Byzantine Music Treatises in the Manuscripts Fund in Romania"

Università degli Studi di Cassino: "Πύλη — A Gateway to Greek Manuscripts"

La psalmodie de l'échos varys

Svetlana Poliakova's PhD thesis about "the Triodion Cycle in the Liturgical Praxis in Russia during the Studite Period" online

Diane Touliatos and her catalogue of Byzantine chant manuscripts for the National Library of Athens

Dictionnaire grec-français des noms liturgiques

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