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The Twelfth Meeting of the IMS Study Group: CANTUS PLANUS Lillaf ür ed, Hungary, 23-28 August 2004

The Twelfth Meeting of the IMS Study Group: CANTUS PLANUS Lillaf ür ed, Hungary, 23-28 August 2004. Konstantinos Terzopoulos OBSERVATIONS ON THE EXEGEMATIC NOTATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE MS EXEGESIS OF THE PROTOPSALTES OF THE GREAT CHURCH, KONSTANTINOS BYZANTIOS: AN EXAMPLE.

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The Twelfth Meeting of the IMS Study Group: CANTUS PLANUS Lillaf ür ed, Hungary, 23-28 August 2004

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  1. The Twelfth Meeting of the IMS Study Group:CANTUS PLANUSLillafüred, Hungary, 23-28 August 2004 Konstantinos Terzopoulos OBSERVATIONS ON THE EXEGEMATIC NOTATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE MS EXEGESIS OF THE PROTOPSALTES OF THE GREAT CHURCH, KONSTANTINOS BYZANTIOS: AN EXAMPLE

  2. I. Konstantinos Byzantios:a very, very short biography • Born: Constantinople, 1777 • Died: Princess Isle of Halke, 30 June 1863

  3. Konstantinos Byzantios 1790s:Kanonarchos, 1st and 2nd chanter of the Metochion of Mount Sinai 1800:2nd Domestikos of the Great Church 1808:1st Domestikos of the Great Church 1819:Lampadarios of the Great Church 1821:Protopsaltes of the Great Church

  4. Psaltic activity • Rejected the New Method (1814-1821) • Codex writer • Kallopismos, melopœïa (=melic composition), and syntmesis • Exêgêsis

  5. Music Publication • Editor and official patriarchal approval of ecclesiastical music publications • Three music publications: • Anthologia Sticherariou, 2 Vols.(Constantinople 1840 and 1841) • Tameion Anthologias, 2 Vols. (Constantinople 1845 and 1846) • Anastasimatarion argon kai syntomon (Constantinople 1865)

  6. Compilation of liturgical ‘typikon’ of the Great Church • Notebook 1808 • Published 1st ed. of Typikon Ekklesiastikon (Constantinople 1838) • Published 2nd ed. (Constantinople 1851) • Unpublished 3rd ed. (Constantinople 1852)

  7. Heritage • Neofit Rilski translation into Slavo-Bulgarian, (Typik" tserkovnyi (Constantinople 1853), published by Konstantinos’ son, Georgios • Influence on Romanian church also via Anton Pann publication, Tipic bisericesc (Bucarest 1851)

  8. ‘Exoteric’ or secular music Kiari of the peïzadé Giagkou Karatzas and Giagkou Theologos in P. Kiltzanidou, Methodike Didaskalia (Constantinople 1881)

  9. Other music notations • Georgios Lesbios system • Alphabetical system of the Bucharest School • Alphabetical system of Païsios Xeropotamenos • European staff notation of Ioannes Chabiaras and hierodeacon Anthimos Nikolaïdes • Important contribution to Patriarchal and Synodal responses to these systems

  10. portrait • ‘a mere glance from him was enough to bring correction’ • Patriarchal chanter for over 55 years

  11. II. POINT OF REFERENCE Notational Classifications

  12. Most general classifications • Ekphonetic Notation (beginning in 9th c) — Melic Notations — • Palæo or early Byzantine notation • Middle Byzantine or so-called ‘Round’ notation, 12th c • The New Method of Ecclesiastical Music — Chrysanthine notation or Method of the Three Teachers — 1814-1821 Oliver Strunk, Specimina notationum antiquirum (Hauniae 1965)

  13. Exegematic (ἐξηγηματικὴ) notation • Early Byzantine notation (950-1175) • Middle, fully developed Byzantine notation (1177-1670) • Transitional, exêgêmatic Byzantine notation (1670-1814) • New analytical notation, New Method (1814 to present) Gr. Th. Stathis, Hoi anagrammatismoi kai ta mathemata tes byzantines melopoiias (Athens 1979)

  14. III. Notational Observations One example

  15. Notational signs used by Konstantinos Byzantios • 33 notational signs

  16. Exegesis by Konstantinos • Athos, Hag. Pantel. 977, fol. 202v-203v (circa 1800-1805)

  17. Baptismal Trisagion • Ὅσοι εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε, Χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε, ἀλληλούια. Used instead of the Trisagion on days when baptisms traditionally occurred, Pascha, Nativity of Christ, Epiphany and Pentecost: based on Gal. 3. 27

  18. Athos, Iveron MS 1120, year 1458, written by Manuel Chrysaphes Doukas the lampadarios of the royal clergy and maïstor Athens, EBE 947, 17th c., written by Panagiotes Chrysaphes the new, protopsaltes of the Great Church Athens, EBE 2301, year 1809, Papadike Athens, EBE 2175, mid 18th c., Papadike with mele of Balasios the priest Athos, Hag. Pantel. 977, exegeses of Konstantinos, 2nd Domestikos of the Great Church, exegematic notation New Method Athens, ΜΠΤ 704, exegesis by Chourmouzios, year 1818 Pandekte (Constantinople 1851) Comparative method

  19. Iveron 1120

  20. EBE 947 • EBE 2175

  21. EBE 947 • EBE 2175

  22. EBE 947 • Iveron 1120

  23. Iveron 1120 and EBE 947

  24. Iveron 1120, EBE 947 and 2301

  25. EBE 947 and Hag. Pantel. 977 [d] e d d c d c d [d] e d e f e f f e e d c e d

  26. Hag. Pantel. 977 and NM ΜΠΤ 704

  27. Postscript • Notational comparison of MSS: • Understanding on notational stages of development • Understanding of stages of melic composition • Observations: • Continuity of exegeses • Freedom of kallopismos on foundation of earlier melodic shapes

  28. Comparative notational method and the exegematic Byzantine chant notation

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