“The story of a composition or ‘Adventures’ of written melodies, during the Byzantine and post-Byzantine era”

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Unit:
Department of Music Studies
Title:
“The story of a composition or ‘Adventures’ of written melodies, during the Byzantine and post-Byzantine era”
Languages of Item:
English
Abstract:
The story of a composition (the story of any composition) constitutes -undoubtedly- a completely interesting “adventure”: as soon as its composer conceives it, it is noted down (by its composer or by his students), it is copied (unedited or partly changed) into various other musical manuscripts, it is broadly spread during its time or even centuries after that, it arouses the interest of other (known or unknown) music instructors (who retouch it, beautify it, reform it, broaden it), and – finally – it is transcribed into various (and differentiated, as time goes by) systems of musical notation… In the present paper, I try to trace some aspects and respective illustrations of this “adventure”, triggered off an enigmatic figure; the Eunouxos Protopsaltes the Phelanthropenos (Constantinople, second half of 13th century), a composer who is accredited with only one composition, which is anthologized occasionally (from the 14th until the 16th century) into various Mathemataria. The emerging conclusions present a high musicological interest, with a generalized and diachronic validity…
Publication year:
2013
Authors:
Achilleas Chaldaeakes
Publisher:
A.A. Bredious Foundation Leuven-Paris-Walpole, MA: Peeters
Conference title:
Tradition and Innovation in Late-and Postbyzantine Liturgical Chant II. Proceedings of the Congress held at Hernen Castle, the Netherlands, 30 October-3 November 2008, Edited by: Gerda Wolfram and Christian Troelsgard
Pages:
261-289
Keywords:
Byzantine Music, Byzantine Musicology, Byzantine music (Music), Hellenic (Byzantine) Music and Musicology, History of Byzantine Music, Morphology of Byzantine Music, βυζαντινή μουσική, Byzantine Church Music, βυζαντινή εκκλησιαστική μουσική, Byzantine musical manuscripts
Main subject category:
Fine arts - Entertainment
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