International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

MODALITIES OF BYZANTINE PSALMODY IN THE 
CHANTING TRADITIONS OF THE ORTHODOX NATIONS – 
BYZANTINE AND POST-BYZANTINE ERA
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Convener: 
Vesna Sara Peno
Costin Moisil
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Romanian Chant and Byzantine Chant: Two Musics or Only One?
Vesna Sara Peno
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Serbian Folk Church Chant / Its (Post)Byzantine Roots and European Grafts. 
Discourse on “National” Features of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Music Tradition
Jaakko Olkinuora
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Rhetoric in Byzantine Chant and Its Transmission to Other Languages
Galina Alekseeva
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Theotokion “Ten Pankosmion Doxan” in the Byzantine, Russian and Korean Traditions 
of the Christian Singing: Experience of Comparative Study of the Adaptation Process
Petar Kozakijević
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Models of the Adaptation of Byzantine Musical Melodies in the Church Slavonic Language
Constantin Gordon
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The Adaptation of Greek Byzantine Chants into Romanian by Macarie Ieromonahul. 
An Overview of the Second Soft Chromatic Mode Compositions
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This session and the previous one (Music and Hymnography, Melodies, Their Composers and Musical 
Instruments) are actually two parts of the single musicological session. Each part, however, has its own title. 

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Costin Moisil
National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania; 
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Romanian Chant and Byzantine Chant: Two Musics or Only One?
The Byzantine origin of Orthodox Romanian chant was acknowledged by music historians in 
the last two hundreds years. Opinions, though, vary in respect to the details: are there any significant 
differences between Byzantine and Romanian church music? Are they two distinct musics displaying 
particular features or is it just one and the same music sung to Greek and Romanian words 
respectively? If they are indeed two separate musics, then which were the causes and processes that 
shaped the Romanian chant? This paper explores the opinions of cantors and musicologists on the 
relationship between Byzantine and Romanian chant, and the reasons for which these opinions 
varied throughout the last two centuries.