International Conference on Orthodox Church Music in Prague
“Ars Nova East and West”
Prague, Czech Republic / 14-16 October 2016
Conference Schedule
The International Conference was held at Charles University in Prague
Friday 14th October
10:00 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Addresses
Opening of the Conference:
Ivan Moody, Chairman, ISOCM
prof. PaedDr. Michal Nedělka, Dean
Doc. Jana Palkovská, Head of Department – Music Education Department
His Eminence, Archbishop Michal of Prague
Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
First Session
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Gregorios Anastasiou & Polykarpos Polykarpides
A short study on the compositions of the ‘mathema’ Anothen oi prophetai, from the “golden age” of kalophonia (14th -15th centuries) as food for thought on the concepts of eponymity, tradition and innovation in Byzantine Music -
Athanasios Delios
Χριστοῦ τὸν ἱεράρχην: the course of the sticheron from the old (non kalophonic) to the kalophonic melos
Lunch
Second Session
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Study Group for Byzantine Musical Palaeography from the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
'Traditional innovation’ in Byzantine Chant: the case of kalophonia -
Dimitris Balageorgos
The Cretan psaltic tradition of 16th - 17th century: a radical and prototype melopoiea of the Great Doxology -
Mena Mark Hanna
Coptic Chant: Questions of Consistency and Constancy in an Oral Tradition
Third Session
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Jopi Harri
How were stichera sung in Valaam? -
Victoria Legkikh
Services to St Daniel of Moscow: Tradition and a new way of creation -
Mária Prokipčáková
Irmologia - an innovative means of the transmission of liturgical music in the Carpathian area -
Ionuț Gabriel Nastasă
Tradition and innovation in Romanian Orthodox chant - "Our Father"
19:30 Concert
Ars Nova East and West
A dialogue between works by the main representative composers of Ars Nova in the East and West – Guillaume de Machaut, St John Koukouzelis and others.
Ensemble Polyfonion, artistic director Igor Angelov
Philokallia ensemble (female voices), artistic director Marios Christou
Soloist: Protopsaltis Grigoris Anastasiou
The concert will also present premieres of works by contemporary composers Alkis Baltas and Ivan Moody
Church of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Resslova 9a, Prague 2
Saturday 15th October
Fourth Session
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Marina Luptáková
Tradition and Traditions in Iconography -
Christopher Ashbaugh
Joy, Catharsis, and (Eu)Catastrophe -
Sara Peno and Zdravko Peno
Church Music between Tradition and Innovation: A Study in Canon and Creativity -
Marios Christou
A Newly discovered manuscript of Bohuslav Martinů on the Byzantine Octoechos
Lunch
Fifth Session
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Vasileios Salteris
Innovation within the Sticherarion during the post-Byzantine era: The contribution of George Prasinos -
Flora Kritikou
The compositions entitled “dysikon” (Western) and “fragikon” (Frankish): a working hypothesis on potential convergence points of two different traditions -
Michael Stroumpakis
The Heirmos of the Ninth Ode instead of Axion estin: A new (?) kind of composition during the 19th century. -
Thomas Apostolopoulos
The theory of musical intervals in the era of the Byzantine maistores
Coffee
Sixth Session
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Ivan Moody
New art and renewed art -
Alexandre Damnianovitch
The composition Nativity by Alexandre Damnianovicvh -
Bogdan Djaković
The cotrelation of Western and Eastern elements in Serbian Church Choral Music of the first half of the 20th century -
Predrag Djoković
Hints of the instrumental music in some sticheras of Serbian Church Chant
19:00 Reception
Sunday 16th October
9.30 Divine Liturgy
Seventh Session
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Khatuna Managadze
St Andrew of Crete’s Canon of Repentance and Georgian mediaeval aesthetics and philosophy -
Tamar Ckheidze
Florid chanting in Georgian liturgical tradition and some parallels with Byzantine Kalophonic style -
Eka Chabashvili
Different aspects of chants by contemporary Georgian composers as revealed through variations in performance -
Maka Virsaladze
Nodar Mamisashvili's Passion as an example of mixing old and new elements in 20th -Century Georgian sacred music
Eighth Session
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Sevi Mazera
Φως ιλαρόν: an early Christian hymn of the 4th century A.D. Various compositions to the text through the history of ecclesiastical chant and the new composition by Prof. Gregorios Stathis. -
Irina Gerasimova
Transmission and adaptation of the Greek Cherubic Hymn in the ecclesiastical chanting practice of the Kievan Metropolia and the Moscow Patriarchate at the end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th centuries -
Eugene Kindler
Chant of chords, organized as homophony -
Haig Utidjian
Two documentary witnesses to interactions between the Armenian and Greek Orthodox Sacred Musical traditions: an Armenian contrafactum, and a through-composed Paschal Introit
16:00 Exhibition: The Art of the Armenian Book Through the Ages
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