Nikolaos Giannoukakis
Παλαιό Μέλος
To all those interested in the Multimodal School of Byzantine Chant, Practice and Theory of the ASBMH and to answer some questions that were posed to us and to update everyone:
First, the program is entirely free for all. The Society does not seek financial reward through this medium.
Second, currently, the broadcasts are geared to those with some elementary knowledge of Byzantine notation and some understanding of the tonal system. In the next couple of weeks, another broadcast will be offered for the real novice/beginner, in the English language, using English translations with Byzantine notation. That is being made possible with the generous permission of Fr. Ephraim of the St-Anthony Monastery in Arizona (www.stanthonysmonastery.org) to use his material as study references.
Third, an intensive month-long summer session is being planned to be held in Pittsburgh to cover issues for beginners and more advanced individuals.
Fourth, we do not recommend any personal teacher other than those who are faithful to the Chrysanthine system as approved by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who have multi-year in-depth training alongside a reputable chanter in Greece and/or who at least possess a genuine diploma/certificate from one of Greece's major ecclesiastic formative centers and/or music schools (not to be confused with general music conservatories where Byzantine Chant is one of many programs).
Fifth, unless someone specifically requests us not to do so, we will include your contact in our general mailing database to notify you of future events, improvements to the system and other relevant topics to Byzantine Music and Chant (meetings, congresses etc).
Currently, the accessible recorded video material previously-broadcast can be found at:
(Anastasimatarion): http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/reco...tine+music+101
(Holy Week):
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/instru...y-of-holy-week
We are in the process of fine-tuning the settings and we will have a video library with better and detailed description soon. Bear with us as we correct our imperfections.
The live broadcast of the Anastasimatarion is every Tuesday at about 6:30 PM EDT/EST through http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/Educationa...Live/Live.html
The live broadcast of Holy Week material is also every Tuesday at about 6:30 PM EDT/EST
at: http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/Educationa...ve/ACLive.html
Whatever material is not currently in the video library will be repeated in the future. Beginner's Byzantine Chant (i.e. basics of notation, rhythm, modes, genera etc) will be rebroadcast in the English language in the near future given that it was already offered a couple of month's ago prior to our setup with the broadcast system.
We will open up the video collection by George Hatzichronoglou before month's end.
Regarding the material:
We are currently using the Anastasimatarion as published by Apostoliki Diakonia tis Ekklisias tis Ellados (ZOI). Essentially, this is very little different from the Anastasimatarion of Ioannis Protopsaltis and that will be available for download starting the 5th of March 2010 as a pdf from:
http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/Educationa...simatarion.pdf
We will soon start using the Anastasimatarion in the pdf file and we will notify you
in the broadcasts and in the videos. In fact, the pdf file will be displayed in
the live broadcast with a large pointer indicating the neumes as we perform
parallagi (solfege) and melos (melody).
For the Holy Week text, we are using α classic text that can be downloaded directly from the live view webpage http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/educationa...ve/ACLive.html
Last, in North America, the Society collaborates with the following individuals and
endorses them as individuals with the in-depth knowledge, experience and credibility to teach one-on-one where possible. With time, we hope to include others who will be willing to collaborate and offer their time and knowledge.
Nicholas Georgafentis (Chicago)
Iraklis Panagiotidis (Portland/Seattle)
Grammenos (Menios) Karanos (Boston)
Archon Protopsaltis Konstantinos Lagouros (Montreal, Canada)
Rev. Fr. Ilias Drossos (London, Ontario, Canada)
Rev. Fr. Odysseas Drossos (Markham, Ontario, Canada and Toronto, Canada)
Apostolos Combitsis (Toms River, NJ and Philadelphia, PA)
Dr. Nick Giannoukakis (Pittsburgh, PA, Western PA, Eastern OH and WV)
Dr. Elie Azar (Altoona, PA and Central PA)
Fr. Ephraim (St-Anthony Monastery, Florence, AZ)
Thank you for your interest
Shawn Ward
ASBMH Officer
First, the program is entirely free for all. The Society does not seek financial reward through this medium.
Second, currently, the broadcasts are geared to those with some elementary knowledge of Byzantine notation and some understanding of the tonal system. In the next couple of weeks, another broadcast will be offered for the real novice/beginner, in the English language, using English translations with Byzantine notation. That is being made possible with the generous permission of Fr. Ephraim of the St-Anthony Monastery in Arizona (www.stanthonysmonastery.org) to use his material as study references.
Third, an intensive month-long summer session is being planned to be held in Pittsburgh to cover issues for beginners and more advanced individuals.
Fourth, we do not recommend any personal teacher other than those who are faithful to the Chrysanthine system as approved by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who have multi-year in-depth training alongside a reputable chanter in Greece and/or who at least possess a genuine diploma/certificate from one of Greece's major ecclesiastic formative centers and/or music schools (not to be confused with general music conservatories where Byzantine Chant is one of many programs).
Fifth, unless someone specifically requests us not to do so, we will include your contact in our general mailing database to notify you of future events, improvements to the system and other relevant topics to Byzantine Music and Chant (meetings, congresses etc).
Currently, the accessible recorded video material previously-broadcast can be found at:
(Anastasimatarion): http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/reco...tine+music+101
(Holy Week):
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/instru...y-of-holy-week
We are in the process of fine-tuning the settings and we will have a video library with better and detailed description soon. Bear with us as we correct our imperfections.
The live broadcast of the Anastasimatarion is every Tuesday at about 6:30 PM EDT/EST through http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/Educationa...Live/Live.html
The live broadcast of Holy Week material is also every Tuesday at about 6:30 PM EDT/EST
at: http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/Educationa...ve/ACLive.html
Whatever material is not currently in the video library will be repeated in the future. Beginner's Byzantine Chant (i.e. basics of notation, rhythm, modes, genera etc) will be rebroadcast in the English language in the near future given that it was already offered a couple of month's ago prior to our setup with the broadcast system.
We will open up the video collection by George Hatzichronoglou before month's end.
Regarding the material:
We are currently using the Anastasimatarion as published by Apostoliki Diakonia tis Ekklisias tis Ellados (ZOI). Essentially, this is very little different from the Anastasimatarion of Ioannis Protopsaltis and that will be available for download starting the 5th of March 2010 as a pdf from:
http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/Educationa...simatarion.pdf
We will soon start using the Anastasimatarion in the pdf file and we will notify you
in the broadcasts and in the videos. In fact, the pdf file will be displayed in
the live broadcast with a large pointer indicating the neumes as we perform
parallagi (solfege) and melos (melody).
For the Holy Week text, we are using α classic text that can be downloaded directly from the live view webpage http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/educationa...ve/ACLive.html
Last, in North America, the Society collaborates with the following individuals and
endorses them as individuals with the in-depth knowledge, experience and credibility to teach one-on-one where possible. With time, we hope to include others who will be willing to collaborate and offer their time and knowledge.
Nicholas Georgafentis (Chicago)
Iraklis Panagiotidis (Portland/Seattle)
Grammenos (Menios) Karanos (Boston)
Archon Protopsaltis Konstantinos Lagouros (Montreal, Canada)
Rev. Fr. Ilias Drossos (London, Ontario, Canada)
Rev. Fr. Odysseas Drossos (Markham, Ontario, Canada and Toronto, Canada)
Apostolos Combitsis (Toms River, NJ and Philadelphia, PA)
Dr. Nick Giannoukakis (Pittsburgh, PA, Western PA, Eastern OH and WV)
Dr. Elie Azar (Altoona, PA and Central PA)
Fr. Ephraim (St-Anthony Monastery, Florence, AZ)
Thank you for your interest
Shawn Ward
ASBMH Officer
