Strollıng through ECHOES of the past
This mini symposium/workshop aims to explore the many facets of Byzantine music and its legacy. It addresses the importance of music in the Byzantine culture, but also tracks down its spatio-temporal reflections. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and pursues/initiates discussions by bringing scholars from wide-ranging disciplines.
Organized by: Bilkent Department of History, Bilkent Saygun Center
In collaboration with: Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Koç Üniversitesi,
Hellenic Mediterranean University (Yunanistan), and Byzantium at Ankara.
With the participation of:
University of Music and Theater at Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Crete, Greece
University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
City, University of London, UK
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Note-Reading by
Antonios Botonakis
NOVEMBER 11TH AND 12TH AT 8.30-11.20
The participants should be able to read Western music (or have at least a solid background in music theory) in order to be able to comprehend the way the Byzantine notation system works.
Also priorities will be given to early applications.
Important Note:
Note-Reading is NOT a hybrid event.
It is a FACE-TO-FACE event.
There will be NO ONLINE participation.
there wıll be two sessıons.
Estimated Number of Students for two days: 20
Venue: Bilkent University, FEASS, C-Block Amphi
Applications to be sent: abotonakis@hmu.gr
KEY NOTE SPEAKER:
COMPOSER PROF. DR. DIMITRI TERZAKIS
BYZANTINE AND NEW MUSIC. THE MUSIC OF DIMITRI TERZAKIS
NOVEMBER, 11TH, 2021
h. 17.15
NOVEMBER, 11TH, THURSDAY (17.oo-19.00)
THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS
MARKOS SKULIOS
Theorizing in Multimodal & Multi-Intervalic Melodic Traditions: The Twin Systems of Byzantine Octoechos and Ottoman-Turkish makams
CENK GÜRAY & NEVIN ŞAHIN
The Similarities between Byzantine and Ottoman Music in Medieval Theories
ACHILLEAS CHALDAeaKeS
Ottoman Melodies Written Down Through Byzantine Notation: An Example From Peter Byzantios
PANAYOTIS LEAGUE
Sadakat and Paradigmatic Notation in Konstantinos N. Keragleaglow Collection
VISUAL WITNESSES (16.00-17.00)
ANTONIOS BOTONAKIS
NOVEMBER, 12TH, FRIDAY (17.00-19.00)
CONTEMPORARY INFLUENCES
ALEXANDER LINGAS
Byzantine Chant and the Canons of Western Art Music: History, Tradition and Creativity
EMMANOUIL GIANNOPOULOS
Influences and Benefits of the Psaltic Art on the 20th Century Greek Music
YIgIT AYDIN
Saygun in Connection with Byzantine Music and Its Theory
all lectures wıll be broadcasted vıa zoom
further ınformatıon: byzantıumanankara@hotmaıl.com
closıng concert (12th frıday 8 pm)
Three bektashı hymns on the crossroads of heterodoxy
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dede sultan (akdenız yakası, aydın ıllerı)
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Yar yare karsı (asık masukuna yar yare karsı)
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karaburun-rodos semahı (karaburun içinde yelken örerler)
performers: nevın sahın & cenk güray (hacettepe unıversıty)
The maestros of the psaltıc art, athens
conductor: achılleas chaldaeakes
kalophonıc verse from the second psalm, composed by john koukouzeles ın 4th plagal mode, why do the natıons conspıre [ Ἵ ν α τ ί ἐ φ ρ ύ α ξ α ν ἔ θ ν η ](Choır of chanters "the maestros of the psaltıc art" recordıng of lıve performance ın athens cathedral, 18.10.2018)