Cathedral Rituals and Chanting Practices among the Medieval Orthodox Slavs – Kondakarnoie Pienie
The Forefeast, Christmas and Epiphany Cycles
Cathedral Rituals and Chanting Practices among the Medieval Orthodox Slavs – Kondakarnoie Pienie
The Forefeast, Christmas and Epiphany Cycles
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Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034346825
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 28/03/2024
Width: 15 cm
Height: 22.2 cm
This study explores Kondakarnoie Pienie, a musical phenomenon that flourished in Kievan Rus’ from the 11th-13th centuries and is preserved in only five manuscripts. Stimulated by the global digitization initiatives undertaken by the major holdings East and West, previously inaccessible primary source material has come available. As a result the current investigation is a reassessment of earlier work accomplished. It addresses aspects of musical palaeography, liturgical context and function, and performance practice. The music examined is the chant cycles for the Forefeast, Christmas and Epiphany celebrations, a substantial body of comparable musical material that furnishes explicit evidence of the appropriation of Byzantine cathedral chanting practices by the medieval Slavs.
Sigla – Introduction – Brief Historical Overview: Slavia Orthodoxa – Kievan Rus’ – Music The State of Byzantine Music at the End of the 10th Century; Its Slavic Reception – The Mechanics of Kondakarnoie Pienie: The Fostering of a Local Tradition – Liturgical Excurses and Context: The Byzantine – Cathedral Ritual among the Slavs Liturgical Sources: Menaion and Typikon – A Brief Survey – Hymnography – On the Continuing Role of Oral Tradition in Chant Transmission: An Enduring Impediment to the Practical Reconstruction of the Repertory – Liturgical Discourse on the Sung Numbers Performance, Liturgical Placement and Historical Context of the Sung Numbers – Palaeography, Reconstruction and Transcription: An Introduction Methodology; Notational Correlative or Melodic Equivalent? Modality – Musical Excurses and Analyses – The Effectiveness of the Counterpart Transcription Method – Conclusions. – Appendix I: Texts and Translations – Appendix II: Concordance of Chants and Their Incipits – Bibliography – Index of Proper Names – Subject Index.
