[B-Greek] Songs in Koine
Nikolaos Adamou
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Sun Mar 29 01:34:26 EDT 2009
> From: kevin at bombaxo.com
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:48:07 -0700
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Songs in Koine
>
> In addition to the resources that Messrs Lightman and Sorenson have
> mentioned, I'd like, too, to remind readers of the rich hymnological
> tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church, a body comprised of thousands of
> works composed mostly in the Byzantine era, entirely in Koine. These are
> sung, of course, with modern Greek pronunciation, essentially the same
> pronunciation for which most were written. There is no "Erasmian heresy"
> found there!
>
> A fine introductory site is that of Analogion:
> http://mp3.analogion.net/index.html
>
> Regards,
> Kevin P. Edgecomb
> Berkeley, California
>
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This web site in its ἀνάγνωσις (ANAGNOSIS - reading) part has the psalm ρμ΄ 140(141) which is read in every vesper service. The first reading is from the late archbishop of Athens, and the second from the archbishop of Crete.
This is a very interesting site, created by Dr. Papademetriou who holds a Ph.D. in physics. He created the byzantine organ "monohord" - μονόχορδον - in physical as well as in computerized form, and he recreates musical scales and forms that exist in Byzantine mysic, but were not transformed in the western music.
Let me repeat it (again) that what is now known as Byzantine music and used by the Greek Orthodox Church is the classical Greek music.
It is what Cleonides (2nd century a.C.) described in his Introduction to Harmonics, where the scales that Dr. Papademetriou reproduces are explained.
Alypius (late 4th early 5th century) in his Introduction to Music provides the way Greeks wrote music - symbols and explanations.
Plutarch the Athenian (350-433) in his About Music describes the quality and provides of further information.
None of the above three authors was a Christian.
Athanasios Siamakis translated those three works into modern Greek, provided detailed explanations, and the relations of the diatonic, chromatic and harmonic genus-es to the byzantine music as well identified the work of Plutarch which in the literature up to know is described as pseudo-Plutarch in his volumes:
ΑΛΥΠΙΟΥ, ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ, 2003, Prespes Publication, 2nd ed. (pages 145)
ΚΛΕΩΝΙΔΟΥ, ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΑΡΜΟΝΙΚΗ, 2nd ed. Κάλαμος Publication, 2007, correcting the name of the author from the incorrect ΚΛΕΟΝΕΙΔΗΣ, (pages 76) and
ΠΛΟΥΤΑΡΧΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΥ, ΠΕΡΙ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ, Κάλαμος Publication, 2005 (pages 200).
Nikolaos Adamou, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Business Management
BMCC / CUNY
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