Romanian Ochtoechoi and similarities to Middle Eastern modes and practices: a case study (part I)

Authors

  • B. Scurtu Stony Brook University, New York, United States
  • C. Tutu Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Keywords:

Ochtoechoi, Maqamat, Makamlar, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic

Abstract

This two-part article will try to capture, trace, and analyze the Byzantine musical modes, as they appeared at a brief moment, some nineteen hundred years later, in a specific geographical place, a former part of the Byzantine Empire. We will try to compare the Church modes, as they appear in two Romanian Seminary textbooks, published one in 1900 and the other in 1939 to other modal structures developed in the heartland of Eastern Christianity, the Middle East.

Author Biography

C. Tutu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Faculty of Music

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Published

2011-12-12

Issue

Vol. 4(53) No. 2 (2011)

Section

ART STUDIES

License

Copyright (c) 2011 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII: Performing Arts

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