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The Georgian Modal System

posted in: 8 Tone System, Gelati monastery style, General, Music Theory, Shemokmedi monastery style, Svetitskhoveli (Karbelashvili) style | 0

1. INTRODUCTION The present paper discusses selected results from my dissertation work on “The History of Georgian Chant Notation and the Georgian Musical System” (Erkvanidze, 2014). One of the main challenges in the context of trying to understand the Georgian … Read More

Archival Recordings, Byzantine, chonguri, Daghatsatu nebsit, dorian mode, ethnomusicology, Evgeny Gertsman, Ganatldi, Gelati monastery style, Ioane Batonishvili Kalmasoba, Kakhi Rosebashvili, Kriste aghdga, Kvertkhi ieses dzirisagan, Malkhaz Erkvanidze, Maqruli, modal theory, modulation, modzakhili, Mtasa zeda peristsvale, mtkmeli, notation, performance practice, Rachuli, Saidumlo utskho, salamuri, scale, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, tetrachord, tetrachords, transcription issues, tritone, Tsmindano motsameno, tuning issues, Yuri Kholopov

Computational Ethnomusicology – Recordings of Artem Erkomaishvili

posted in: Easter chant, General, History, Liturgy chant, Shemokmedi monastery style, Svaneti style, Troparion 8 Tone System, Vespers-Matins chant | 0

  By way of some background, my involvement with the study of Georgian music started with a chance meeting with Meinard Müller, Professor for Semantic Audio at the University of Erlangen, at the 16th International Conference of the Society for … Read More

Artem Erkomaishvili, computational ethnomusicology, Elia lrdei, ethnomusicology, Feast day chant, German Research Foundation, larynx microphones, Liturgy chant, Meinard Müller, modal theory, Nana Mzhavanadze, overdubbing technique, Pythagorean scale, rare variant, Sebastian Rosenzweig, Shemokmedi monastery style, spectrograph, Svaneti style, tuning issues, University of Erlangen, University of Potsdam, voice crossings
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Recent Posts

  • One Old Georgian Musical Term (Mortuleba)
  • The Georgian Modal System
  • Trisagion Hymn – East Syriac and Georgian connections
  • Computational Ethnomusicology – Recordings of Artem Erkomaishvili
  • Trisagion Hymn – Musical Analysis

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  • HistoryThe history of Georgian chant is rich in incredible biographical stories of figures who were chanters, transcribers, supporters, publishers, and in the end, those that risked their lives to save the manuscripts from destruction.

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