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Session

PRESENTATIONS_40: Round table: Manuscripts of the Eastern Christian Chant traditions

Time:

Thursday, 02/July/2026:

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Location: Museum Hall

Presented by the Forum of Sections

Presentations

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Manuscripts of the Eastern Christian Chant Traditions: Catalogues, Metadata, Research tools. On the state of the art and future projects

Maria Alexandru¹, Silvia Tessari², Emmanouil Giannopoulos¹, Flora Kritikou³, Anastasios Kolydas³, Ioannis Liakos¹, Michael Stroumbakis⁴, Evangelia Spyrakou⁵, Ozana Alexandrescu⁶, Yevgenija Ignatenko⁷, Haig Utidjian⁸, Girolamo Garofalo⁹, Nikolaos Siklafidis¹, Maria Aslanidi¹⁰, Dimosthenis Spanoudakis¹, Savvas Prastitis¹

¹Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece; ²Universita di Padova, Italy; ³National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; ⁴Patriarchal University Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete, Greece; ⁵University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece; ⁶Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, Romania; ⁷Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music; ⁸Centre for Music Studies, New University of Lisbon; ⁹University of Palermo, Italy; ¹⁰Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

Round Table

IMS Study Group “Music of the Christian East and Orient” and Study Group "Psaltike" of the Levi Foundation in Venice

This Round Table will investigate the manuscript world of Eastern Christian Chant in its various traditions (Byzantine, Slavonic, Romanian, Armenian a.o.), looking gratefully back at what has been accomplished in creating the basic instrumenta studiorum (manuscript inventories, catalogues, and databases of different types) and reflecting on developmental lines for the years to come.

More precisely, we will refer a. to the existent catalogues, with emphasis on the publications since 2000, analyzing the different approaches in the cataloguing work, b. to various attempts of numbering the pieces of the old Byzantine repertories (e.g the numbering of the stichera according to the Standard Abridged Version a.o.), c. to digitalized chant-manuscripts collections, d. to projects of searching sources and their metadata, e. to ongoing/future projects connected to chant manuscripts in the context of digital humanities.

The Round Table will also explore possibilities for greater interconnection between the codicological and paleographical study of eastern Christian chant and historically informed performance practices and music education in the contemporary world. To this end, some recent works will be mentioned, along with a reference to ongoing projects on the subject, such as the Encoding of eastern neumatic notations (MEI initiative), the revival of old performance practices through multidisciplinary research, along with their benefits for music education.