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Aspects of didactics, teaching and learning Byzantine Music |
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| Authors: |
Alexandru, Maria |
| Reviewer: |
Spyrakou, Evangelia |
| Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > THEORY OF EDUCATION (BROAD EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS) > LIFELONG LEARNING HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > FIELDS OF PEDAGOGY > MUSIC PEDAGOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > TEACHING AND LEARNING (PROCESSES AND METHODOLOGY) > LEARNING PROCESS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > TEACHING AND LEARNING (PROCESSES AND METHODOLOGY) > TEACHING > TEACHING METHODS > INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > NATIONAL ART > EUROPEAN ART > BYZANTINE ART HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PERFORMING ARTS > MUSIC > MUSICOLOGY > HYMNOLOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PERFORMING ARTS > MUSICAL STYLES > BYZANTINE MUSIC HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > RELIGIOUS GROUPS > SAINTS |
| Keywords: |
Byzantine Music – Psaltic Art
Byzantine Musicology Music Education Eight-mode system Byzantine neumatic notation Rhythm Natural voice technique Melodists Hymnographers Composers Troparia Byzantine solmisation Melody Educational games Transcription into staff notation Theology and Meta-aesthetics of Psaltic Art |
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| Abstract: |
This manual presents various aspects of education in the field of Byzantine Music – Psaltic Art. It is devised for students of Music Studies, for future and present music teachers and for everybody interested beginner in Byzantine Music. After referring to frames and methods of teaching Psaltic Art in Byzantium (2nd Prologue by Evangelia Spyrakou and chapter I), we turn to the contemporary contexts of Music Education (Introduction). Considering the rising interest in learning Byzantine Music at different ages, from early infancy to the senior age, not only in Greece, but in many countries worldwide, we express some thoughts and make some proposals concerning teaching material and contents, methodological approaches, activities and didactic games, for a joyful, experiential and creative learning of Byzantine Music. We begin with themes related to natural vocal technique (chapter 2) and go on with supporting the teaching and learning of Byzantine neumes of the New Method and the eight-mode system (chapters 3-4). This is followed by several didactic games for different age groups and with various goals, referring to the notation, the modes and the history of Byzantine Music (chapters 5-8). The games can be used for training future music teachers and can be utilized or adapted creatively for the teaching of Byzantine Music in formal and informal educational frames. The manual comprises also an anthology of musical pieces, accompanied by various exercises, recordings and other supportive material for their systematic teaching and learning (chapters 9-13 and appendices I-III). In almost every chapter, as well as in Appendix IV, several transcription examples and exercises on staff notation are included, in order to build a bridge for people trained also in Western music culture. The different activities, the didactic games and the chapters with troparia are arranged according to their level of difficulty, from the simpler to the more complex ones. At the beginning of every chapter the didactic goals on cognitive, affective and psychomotor levels are mentioned, along with proposed teaching methods. Furthermore, we discuss learning paths and possibilities of achieving metacognitive skills in studying music not only with a horizon of earthly life-long training, but also in an eternal perspective, according to the psalm verse “I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.” (Psalm 103/104:33).
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| Linguistic Editors: |
Alexandropoulou, Aikaterini |
| Technical Editors: |
Spanoudakis, Dimosthenis |
| Graphic Editors: |
Koutras, Panagiotis Katsoulis, Ioannis |
| Other contributors: |
Iconographies: Vassilis Mitkoudis, Olga Papadopoulou, Kleopatra Mylona, Chara Didili |
| Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
| Creation Date: | 04-11-2025 |
| Item Details: | |
| ISBN |
978-618-228-359-2 |
| License: |
Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1109 |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/15210 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Alexandru, M. (2025). Aspects of didactics, teaching and learning Byzantine Music [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1109 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Consists of: |
1. On Music Education in Byzantium. A music-pedagogical action 2. Aspects of voice training and themes concerning the Theology and Meta-aesthetics of Psaltic Art 3. Tones and neumes 4. The Byzantine eight-mode system according to the New Method of analytic musical notation 5. Didactic games with the neumes 6. Didactic games and different musical actions with the modes 7. Rhythm, meter, cheironomy and a journey to the East 8. Didactic games with elements concerning the history of Byzantine Music 9. First steps with “To Thee, the Champion Leader” and with “God is the Lord” 10. Study of the pieces “More honorable than the Cherubim” by Petros Peloponnisios, according to the eight modes 11. Study of the Resurrection apolytikia 12. Study of the apolytikia of the Twelve Great Feasts (Dodekaorton) 13. Studying other troparia for Great Saints 14. Appendix I. Preparing a Christmas Feast with the children 15. Appendix II. Chosen apolytikia and kathismata for various exercises 16. Appendix III. Apolytikia for Holy women, in the wake of a vision of St Seraphim of Sarov 17. Appendix IV. The eight modes and their branches (selection). Musicological aids – Exercises of transcription into staff notation |
| Number of pages |
1162 |
| Use Description: |
Συνοδευτικό Υλικό / Additional Material: https://files.kallipos.gr/handles/15210/452_ALEXANDRU_ADDITIONAL.zip |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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