Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae

 

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The Current State of Byzantine Musical Studies

after 75 Years of MMB

 

Open symposium at

Carlsberg Academy (Carlsberg Akademi, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, Copenhagen 2500 Valby)

16 – 17 June 2006

 

Programme:

 

Friday 16 June

 

14.00 Opening of the symposium

 

• John Bergsagel (Director of MMB, Copenhagen)

 

14.15 – 15.30: Achievements of MMB in the past 75 years

 

• Ioannis Papathanasiou (Athens): ”The Significance of Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae for the Study of the Heirmological Tradition".
• Simon Marinčak (Kosiče): ”The Importance of the MMB Series for Research in the Early Byzantine-Slavic Music in Central Europe”
• Arne Bugge (Copenhagen): "Constantine-Cyril and Methodius, The Teachers of the Slavs".

 

15.45 – 17.00: The History of Byzantine Chant and Hymnography

 

• Maria Alexandru (Thessaloniki): "Remarks on the Historiography of Byzantine Music and Hymnography"
• Francesco d’Aiuto (Rome): “The Formation of the Byzantine Hymnographic Books: a Cataloguing Project”
• Nicolas Schidlovsky (Princeton): ”Early Slavic Notation - Meditations across the early Byzantino-Slavic Musical Divide –A Neumed Archetype?”

 

 

Saturday 17 june

 

9.30 – 10.45: Current projects of MMB

 

• Eustatios Makris (Athens): ”The Challenge of Editing an Akolouthiai-Manuscript”
• Girolamo Garofalo (Palermo): ”Father Bartolomeo di Salvo and his Transcriptions of the Byzantine Chants among the Albanians in Sicily”.

• Sysse Engberg (Copenhagen): “Profetie – the genesis of a liturgical book”

 

11.15 – 12.30: Methods and Problems in Byzantine Chant Research I

 

• Christian Hannick (Würzburg): ” On the Method of Using the Old Slavonic Musical Settings (from the 12th through the 16th Centuries) for the Reconstruction of the Greek Tradition.” .
• Gregorios Stathis (Athens): “The Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae – Corpus Scriptorum de Re Musica (CSRM) project "Akakios Chalkeopoulos' Ἀκριβολογήματα (’Akrivologemata’ or ’Precise instructions’) of Music”.
• Gerda Wolfram (Vienna): “ Ancient Greek and Patristic Elements in Late- and Postbyzantine Theoretical Treatises on Church Music “.

 

13.00 – 14.00: Break

 

14.00 – 15.15: Methods and Problems in Byzantine Chant Research II

 

• Bjarne Schartau (Copenhagen): ”Towards the ’editio maior’ of the "Hagiopolites"?”
• Christian Troelsgård (Copenhagen): ”Transcription of Byzantine Chant – Problems – Possibilities - Formats.”