Ella Adaïewsky, Les Chants de l'Église Grecque

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Here is an article

Ella Adaïewsky, Les Chants de l'Église Grecque-Orientale, Rivista musicale italiana, VIII, pp. 43-74, 579-602, 1901.

It starts with some generalities on the Orthodox hymnography and then moves into musical analysis of various pieces. The author seems to have lived in Venice. The work is not particularly deep, but being one of the early Western studies on Byzantine music, it is of some interest.
 

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Shota said:
Here is an article

Ella Adaïewsky, Les Chants de l'Église Grecque-Orientale, Rivista musicale italiana, VIII, pp. 43-74, 579-602, 1901.

It starts with some generalities on the Orthodox hymnography and then moves into musical analysis of various pieces. The author seems to have lived in Venice. The work is not particularly deep, but being one of the early Western studies on Byzantine music, it is of some interest.
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Thanks, Shota!
The "Phos ilaron" on p. 73 must be the same as that given by Gaisser in the Canti Italogreci (i.e. Arberesh, "Arvanitika", of my compatriots:)!) . I think something of it has been translated and published in "Mousikos Logos" (from the Ionian Univ.) and I have seen it there as "Agioreitikon", exactly as the present author describes it.
So, we have a short traditional melody for this chant!
 
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Laosynaktis said:
Thanks, Shota!
The "Phos ilaron" on p. 73 must be the same as that given by Gaisser in the Canti Italogreci (i.e. Arberesh, "Arvanitika", of my compatriots:)!) . I think something of it has been translated and published in "Mousikos Logos" (from the Ionian Univ.) and I have seen it there as "Agioreitikon", exactly as the present author describes it.
So, we have a short traditional melody for this chant!
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Can someone chant this "Phos ilaron" on p. 73 or write it out in byzantine notation, for those of us who do not read western notation?

Merci!

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greek487 said:
Can someone chant this "Phos ilaron" on p. 73 or write it out in byzantine notation, for those of us who do not read western notation?

Merci!
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Here it is! There is a problem with the transcription, concerning the tonality (the intervalls of the mode), which needs some discussion. I perform a kind of "reconstruction", based on the usual scale of echos deuteros.
PS Gaisser copies the melody from Adaïewsky's article, in order to make a comparison with its italo-grecian counterpart. The specific melody is presented by both writers as Athonitic.
 

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emakris said:
Here it is! There is a problem with the transcription, concerning the tonality (the intervalls of the mode), which needs some discussion. I perform a kind of "reconstruction", based on the usual scale of echos deuteros.
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Here is a transcription of the same into (Chrysanthine) Byzantine notation, also employing the usual martyriæ of Second Mode.
 

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And for archiving purposes all above posts combined in a dual page musical PDF, containing the Athonaitic Phos hilaron in european notation from Adaïewsky's article (thanks Shota) along with Basil Crow's byzantine transcription and Eustathios Markri's interpretation.
  • In order to listen to it just press on the photo and permit execution from your pdf reading program
 

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As a little additional remark, p. 70 of the article implies that the "Athonite" melodies of the article (and hence "Phos ilaron" too) have been transcribed from Bartholomaios Koutloumousianos' student.
 
Because there is often a need - especially in parishes - for Vespers to not last too long and because I think that "Fos ilaron" is a hymn and therefore it would be good - I think - to chant it instead of reading it, I propose this abbreviation. The duration of the chant is 50 to 60 seconds. So, it will be sung more often than read.
And because it ends in "βου", I consider it to be plagial second mode.

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There's another topic in the Greek forum, where Eustathios Makris announces an article. I don't know whether it has appeared in print yet. Given biblical times in musicology publications, I won't be surprised if hasn't.

«Φως ιλαρόν» σύντομον

Το θεμα χαθηκε λογω προβληματων του φορουμ, αλλα εχει ισως καποιο ενδιαφερον. Ιδου λοιπον ενα συντομο «Φως ιλαρον» σε ηχο β´ απο το χφ. Paris gr. suppl. 1136 (σσ. 13v-14r), βλ. εδω. Οσοι εξηγητες, προσελθετε. Υ.γ. Υπενθυμιζω επισης αυτο το θεμα στο Αγγλικο μερος του φορουμ, οπου ανεβηκε μια...
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Shota said:
See here, towards the end of the article

www.academia.edu

The Concept of “Old Melody” in Modern Greek Chant: Two Characteristic Cases

The original version of melodies, described as “old” or “ancient” (palaion or archaion) in Anthologies of the New Method, can mostly be traced back in manuscripts before 1453, but this is not always the case. Anonymous compositions (or transcriptions
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A transcription into Byzantine Notation of the Paris Φῶς Ἱλαρόν presented at the end of the article.
 

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