International Conference on Sacred Music East and West:
“Enlightenment & Illumination”
Prague, Czech Republic / 23-25 November 2018
Conference Schedule
Thursday 22 November
11:00 – 13:00
Workshop I:
Marek Valášek: Elements of Eastern Sacred Music in Czech Music
14:30 – 16:00
Workshop II:
Maria Alexandru: Byzantine Music Education
Workshops take place at Charles University, Faculty of Education
Magdalény Rettigové 47/4, 116 39 Praha 1- Nové Město-Praha 1 Room R 107.
Friday 23 November
Conference Venue:
Charles University, Faculty of Education
Magdalény Rettigové 47/4, 116 39 Praha 1- Nové Město-Praha 1 Velký sál (Large hall).
10:00 Opening addresses
Opening addresses
10:30 First Session
Maria Alexandru:
Logos and Light in Byzantine Hymnography and Music. Thoughts on the Meta-aesthetics of Byzantine Chant
Emmanouil Doundoulakis:
The Terms “Light” and “Illumination” in the Hymns of the Theotokarion of St Nikodemos the Hagiorite
Dr. Solon J. Hadjisolomos:
Byzantine Musical Tradition in Cyprus in the 18th Century
Lunch
13:00 Second Session
Emmanouil Giannopoulos:
Compositions having the Designation “Ancient” (“ἀρχαῖον”) or “Old” (“παλαιόν”) in Psaltic Manuscripts and Printed Musical Books of Orthodox Chant
Thomas Apostolopoulos:
A Description of a Pre-theory of Psaltike in German in a Printed Book of 1781
Flora Kritikou:
The Case of the Musical Fragment Sinai X414
Balageorgios Dimitris:
The Contribution of Parthenios Sgoutas to the “Exegesis” of the Notation
Christiana Demetriou:
The Troparion Proskynyseos “Όντως μεγαλεία σοι εποίησε”
Coffee, refreshments
16:00 Third session
Marios Christou:
The Kratema in the 1st Plagal Mode by P. Chalatzoglou – An 18th-century Kratema written in Sonata Form?
Nina-Maria WANEK:
Early Studies on the “Greek Mass”: 18th-century Documents as an Expression of Enlightened Interest in Foreign Musical Cultures?
Panteleimon Zafiris:
Eastern Sacred Music in a West Context during the Enlightenment: Eastern Catholic Churches
Viktroria Legkikh:
St Nicholas of Myra as an Illuminated star and Bridge between the Catholic and Orthodox Worlds in Hymnography
Athanasios Delios:
The Presence of Light in the Kalophonic Sticheron “Προτυπῶν τὴν ἀνάστασιν”
18:30 Reception
Saturday 24 November
9:30 Fourth Session
Robert Galbraith:
The European Enlightenment: Very Different Effects on European and Russian Sacred Music
Chiara Bertoglio:
Themes of Light in Christoph Graupner’s Sacred Output
Florian Bassani:
Gregorio Ballabene's 48-part Mass for twelve choirs (1777): Megalomaniac Anachronism or Enlightened Completion of the Roman Baroque?
Anna Sanda:
Balancing between Tradition and Rationalism: Enlightenment and Sacred Music Practice at the Late 18th century Electoral Court Chapel in Bonn
Lunch
13:00 Fifth Session
Leona Stříteská:
The Cecilian Movement contra Enlightenment Ideals
Helena Kramářová:
Enlightenment and Music in Brno in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Kinga Kiwała:
Temporal Aspects of “Epiphanic Moments” in Religious Music
Bogdan Djakovic:
The Meeting of the Ideas of the Western Enlightenment and Eastern Illumination at the Serbian Karlovci Metropolitanate in the 18th century: from Theology to Music
Coffee
15:30 Sixth session
Ivan Moody:
Icons of Light
Oleh Harkavyy:
Oleh Harkavyy's "Lux aeterna" (2018) in the "Light" of the Enlightenment
Slavomír Hořínka:
Changing the Scale of Perception: a Compositional Strategy of Illumination and Enlightenment
19:30 Concert:
Liturgy and Mass
or
Enlightenment and Illumination
Sacred Music of the 18th century East and West
A concert presenting various settings of the Western Mass by great masters such as W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn and others along with notable settings of the Eastern Liturgy of St John Chrysostom by famous Orthodox composers
Piccolo coro & Piccola orchestra, conductor: Marek Valášek (Czech Republic)
Achilleas Chaldaiakis (Greece) – solo, protopsaltis
Venue: Church of St Wenceslas of Zderaz, Resslova 300/6 120 00, Prague 2
Sunday 25 November
9:30 Divine Liturgy
With the Philokallia Ensemble & Choir of the Cathedral of Ss. Cyril and Methodius
conductor: Marios Christou
Church of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Resslova 9a, Prague 2
14:00 Seventh Session
Ivana Noble and Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer (two papers):
The Johannine Theology of Light in Orthodox Theology and Spirituality: From
St Gregory Palamas to 20th- and 21st-century Orthodoxy in the West
Coffee
15:30 Eighth session
Bogdan Hulea:
Orthodox Music from Transylvania between Byzantine and Folk Music
Svetlana Poliakova:
The Enlightenment of Russia: Views on the Introduction of Christian Chant
Jan Protopapas:
Music for Enlightenment and Illumination: An Introduction to the Sacred Music of Sikhism
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