Mathimata, Kratimata and Deinai (MUSB 7831)
Term: Academic Year 2015-2016 Spring
Description
This course is a study of technically demanding psaltic works from the 13th to the 21st centuries. The repertoire includes historic compositions, such as Pseudo-Damascus’ cherubic hymn and Manuel Chrysaphes’ Lament for the Fall of Constantinople, as well as mathimata, kratimata, doxologies, kalophonic heirmoi, 20th-century adaptations of kratimata in triple meter, and methods of learning the “deinai theseis” (complicated melodic formulae) in the melismatic genres of the Psaltic Art. Prerequisities: Byzantine Music I-VIII