Showing posts with label Byzantine Musicology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Byzantine Musicology. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Performing Byzantium

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It is always interesting to watch what verbs and nouns become prevalent in academic discussion, and in my short lifetime, "performing...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Byzantine Architecture and Aurality

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I hope soon to run an interview with Nicholas Denysenko about his new book,  Theology and Form: Contemporary Orthodox Architecture in Americ...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Romanos the Melodist on the Mother of God

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I have not read much about Romanos the Melodist in quite some time, so when I recently received the University of Pennsylvania Press catalog...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Transcendence and Transition in Sacred Music

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With chapters on the Orthodox musician Arvo Part (about whom see my interview with Peter Bouteneff) and one on the revival of chant on Mt. A...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Italo-Albanian Chant

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There are certain groups, even within the often maddeningly confused world of Eastern Christianity, that are especially small and therefore ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul

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For the Greeks, Ottomans, and musicians in your life: Indiana University Press is set to release today, January 2nd, a new study that you wi...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

By the Rivers of Byzantium We Sat and Wept as We Thought of....Greek Orthodox Hymns?

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At long last we have, in the last decade, been seeing more scholarly works on Eastern Christian music. Set for release the first of next yea...