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Simon Karas, the Glossary

Simon Karas (Lepreo,21 May 1903 – Athens, 26 January 1999) was a Greek musicologist, who specialized in Byzantine music tradition.^[1]

18 relations: Athens, Byzantine music, Cappella Romana, Elis, Greek Byzantine Choir, Greek traditional music, Greeks, Heresy, Interval (music), Lepreo, Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Mode (music), Musicology, Neume, Octoechos, Palaeography, Vatopedi, Zacharo.
Greek musicologists
People from Zacharo
Performers of Byzantine music

Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Byzantine music (Vyzantiné mousiké) originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of Eastern Orthodox liturgy.

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Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana is a vocal ensemble founded in 1991 in Portland, Oregon. Simon Karas and Cappella Romana are Performers of Byzantine music.

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Elis

Elis or Ilia (Ηλεία, Ileia) is a historic region in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.

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Greek Byzantine Choir

The Greek Byzantine Choir is a choir specializing in singing traditional Byzantine chant. Simon Karas and Greek Byzantine Choir are Performers of Byzantine music.

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Greek traditional music

Greek traditional music (Greek: παραδοσιακή μουσική, "traditional music"; also δημοτικά τραγούδια, "folk songs") includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and other parts of Europe.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Heresy

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.

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Lepreo

Lepreo (Λέπρεο, before 1916: Στροβίτζι - Strovitzi) is a village and a community in the municipality of Zacharo, Elis, Greece.

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Lykourgos Angelopoulos

Lykourgos Angelopoulos (Λυκούργος Αγγελόπουλος; 1941 – 18 May 2014) was a Greek chanter. Simon Karas and Lykourgos Angelopoulos are Greek musicologists and Performers of Byzantine music.

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Mode (music)

In music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.

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Musicology

Musicology (from Greek μουσική 'music' and -λογια, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music.

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Neume

A neume (sometimes spelled neum) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.

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Octoechos

Oktōēchos (here transcribed "Octoechos"; Greek: ὁ Ὀκτώηχος; from ὀκτώ "eight" and ἦχος "sound, mode" called echos; Slavonic: Осмогласие, Osmoglasie from о́смь "eight" and гласъ, Glagolitic: ⰳⰾⰰⱄⱏ, "voice, sound") is the eight-mode system used for the composition of religious chant in Byzantine, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Latin and Slavic churches since the Middle Ages.

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Palaeography

Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός,, 'old', and γράφειν,, 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of the analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysis of historic penmanship, handwriting script, signification and printed media.

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