Unit:
Department of Music Studies
Title:
“Tradition and Innovation in the Person of Petros Bereketes”
Languages of Item:
English
Abstract:
The work of Petros Bereketes –all-encompassing, as his name suggests- presents a wondrous balance between the developed old and the emerging new musical traditions, surely, something not uncustomary for the period during which the composer was active (end of 17th and beginning of 18th century). It also proves to be a “musical duality”, which is, unequivocally, especialy interesting. In the present paper I focus on two arrangements of the polyeleos Psalm 134 composed by Bereketes almost simultaneously in mode I and IV plagal of the Byzantine octoechos. From the morphological analysis of the two compositions it can be observed that, on the one hand, the mode IV plagal composition belongs to the old technique of polyeleos Psalm arrangements, as “the last echo” of the old musical tradition –and for this reason is most likely composed in the last mode of the octoechos- while, on the other hand, the first mode composition inaugurates a new, completely synoptic, morphological technique for the composition of polyeleoi (one which will soon dominate), and which Bereketes harmoniously proposes in his use of the mode I of Byzantine octoechos.
Πρόκειται γιὰ μιὰ μεθοδολογικὰ πρωτότυπη προσέγγιση δύο ὁμοειδῶν συνθέσεων (πολυέλεοι Δοῦλοι, Κύριον) τοῦ Πέτρου Μπερεκέτη, μὲ ἀφορμὴ γενικότερο προβληματισμὸ γύρω ἀπὸ τὸ δίπολο: παράδοση καὶ νεωτερισμὸς στὸ μεταβυζαντινὸ ψαλτικὸ μέλος. Μέσῳ μουσικῆς (μελικῆς καὶ μορφολογικῆς) ἀνάλυσης τῶν παραπάνω δύο συνθέσεων, ἀναδεικνύεται καὶ σχολιάζεται διεξοδικὰ ἐδῶ ἡ βούληση τοῦ ἐν λόγῳ μελοποιοῦ ἀφ΄ ἑνὸς μὲν νὰ καθορίσει τὸ τέλος μιᾶς ἐποχῆς (καὶ κατὰ συνέπεια μιᾶς συγκεκριμένης μελικῆς καὶ μορφολογικῆς τεχνοτροπίας), ἀφ΄ ἑτέρου δὲ νὰ ὁροθετήσει τὴν ἀρχὴ μιᾶς νέας περιόδου (καὶ ἄρα νὰ προτείνει νέες τεχνικὲς κατασκευῆς τοῦ μέλους). Αὐτὸ τὸ «πέρασμα» ἀποδεικνύεται ὄχι μόνον ἀναγκαῖο καὶ «προμελετημένο», ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποκαλυπτικὰ ἁρμονικό, καθὼς μεταξὺ τῆς παλαιᾶς καὶ τῆς νέας τεχνικῆς ἐπισημαίνονται κοινὰ μελικὰ καὶ μορφολογικὰ στοιχεῖα.
Τὴ μελέτη τεκμηριώνουν ἐποπτικοὶ πίνακες, μέσῳ τῶν ὁποίων προτείνεται παράλληλα καὶ μία ἐνδιαφέρουσα μεθοδολογία συνδυαστικῆς μορφολογικῆς ἀνάλυσης παρόμοιων συνθέσεων.
Authors:
Achilleas Chaldaeakes
Publisher:
A.A. Bredius Foundation Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA: Peeters
Conference title:
Tradition and Innovation in Late-and Postbyzantine Liturgical Chant. Acta of the Congress held at Hernen Castle, the Netherlands, in April 2005, Edited by: Gerda Wolfram
Keywords:
Byzantine Music, Byzantine Musicology, Byzantine music (Music), Hellenic (Byzantine) Music and Musicology, History of Byzantine Music, Morphology of Byzantine Music, βυζαντινή μουσική, Historical Musicology, Byzantine Music, Byzantine Church Music, βυζαντινή εκκλησιαστική μουσική
Main subject category:
Fine arts - Entertainment
