Κεκραγάριον Α' Ήχου / Kekragarion of First Mode
Μελέτη / A study

Interpretations

Ecumenical Patriarchate

I. Nafpliotis
[wma, 3 Mb] (1920s?)

K. Pringos
[rm, 500 Kb] (1950s?)
(from cmkon.org)

T. Stanitsas
[wma, 3 Mb] (1960s?)
[mp3, 1 Mb] (1970s)

L. Asteris
[mp3, 600 Kb] (Live, 1990)
(broadcasted by L. Angelopoulos and G. Kyriakakis)

I. Xariatidis
[rm, Kb] (1990s)
(from cmkon.org)

Mt. Athos

Fr. Dositheos Paraskevaidis
[mp3, Mb] (1980s?)
(offered by M. Lagoudakis)

Dcn. D. Firfiris
[mp3, Mb] (1980s?)
(recorded by L. Angelopoulos)

Fr. P. Kartsonas
[mp3, 727 Kb] (1980s?)

Chios

L. Sfikas
[htm] - score and sound file (1980s?)
(from S. Kyritsis, extract from book/recording by L. Angelopoulos)

Thessaloniki

X. Taliadwros
(1980s?)
[mp3, Mb]

Athens

Th. Basilikos
[rm, Kb] (1990s?)

Choir of Zoe
[mp3, Mb] (1970s?)

Greek Byzantine Choir
(Dir. L. Angelopoulos)
[mp3, 259 Kb] (1980s?)

Lycourgos Angelopoulos
[mp3, 1.5 Mb] (2006)

Konstantinos Katsoulis
Melos [mp3, 360 Kb]
Parallage [mp3, 700 Kb]

Thessalia

M. Xatzimarkos
(1980s?)
[mp3, 600 Kb]
(recorded by S. Gugushvili off the radio)

P. Kalambakas' Choir
[mp3, 2.8 Mb] (1990s?)

Crete

I. Damarlakis
[wma, 2.2 Mb] (1997)

Arabs

Metr. Elias Qurban (Tripoli, Lebanon)
[mp3, Kb] (from kelfar.net)
In Arabic. Chanted by Metropolitan Elias Qurban of Tripoli-Lebanon. It was recorded live in the 2002 Pentecost Vespers Service.
A composition of the Protopsaltis of the Church of Antioch, Mitri El-Mur. (provided by subdeacon Karim El Far)

Dr. Ibrahim Issid (France)
[mp3, 500 Kb] (offered by G. K. Michalakis)

Russians

Valaam Monastery Brotherhood
[ra]
(from ieropsaltis.com)
 Example of harmonised isokratema.

Other

 G. K. Michalakis
(France, 2005)
(doing the score of Mousike Bibliotheke below) [ra, 4.4 Mb]
(doing the score of Ioannis Protopsaltis below) [ra, 6.4 Mb]
(doing the version from Pringos' Anastasimatarion) [mp3, 1.6 Mb]
Comments on the position of low ZW in the Kekragarion [wma, 170 Kb]

Student of Dimitrios Ioannidis
[mp3, 2.2 Mb]
J. M. Boyer
(US, 2005)
(doing the score of Ioannis Protopsaltis below) [mp3, 1.5 Mb]

Texts

Old Notation

Unknown ms. [jpg]
(scanned by B. Zacharis)

Ms. Kozanis 28, (Petros Labadarios' Anastasimatarion, 1809) [jpg]
(scanned by S. Gugushvili from this book)

Ms EBE-MPT716 (exegesis from Petros' notation by Gregorios Labadarios, 1815) [jpg]
Notice the vertical division of beats into groups of 4 time units.
This is probably the earliest evidence of dividing time in compositions. The notation is semi-analytic.
(scanned by S. Gugushvili from this book)

Ms Benaki TA 157, (written by a student of P. Byzantios, early 19th c.) [jpg]
(scanned by S. Gugushvili from this book)

Ms. Sinai 1439, (early 19th c.) [jpg]
(scanned by S. Gugushvili from this book)

Even higher quality images of the above mss
New Notation

Petrou Efesiou (1st edition 1820) [jpg]

Theodorou Fokaeos (3rd edition 1839) [htm]
(by S. Kyritsis)

Ioannou Protopsaltou (5th edition, 1858, reprint Zoe 1933) [jpg]

Petrou Labadariou (Mousike Bibliotheke (1867)) [jpg]
(by S. Gugushvili)

Petrou Byzantiou (Mousike Bibliotheke (1867)) [jpg]
(by S. Gugushvili)

"Kata mimisin" Petrou Byzantiou (Mousike Bibliotheke (1867)) [jpg]
(by S. Gugushvili)

I. Nafpliotis (written by A. Boudouris 1891-1951) [pdf]
(by K. Tsiappoutas)

Mitri El-Mur (1880-1969) (in Arabic, in his own hadwritting) [pdf]
(by Karim El Far)

S. Karas from his theory book, vol. I [pdf]

A. Boudouris (according to the tradition of Manouel Protopsaltis) [pdf]

Bibliography
"H Psaltikh Texnh: Logos kai Melos sth Latreia ths Orthodokshs Ekklhsias"
"Psaltic Art: Word and Music in Orthodox Church Worship"
Author: Emmanouel Giannopoulos
Published by: University Studio Press, 2004
Contents: described in Greek here
Buy it online here

Comments

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