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Computer Applications to Byzantine Chant: A relational database for the Koinonika of the Asmatikon |
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AbstractThe issues facing anyone
studying the Communion chants of the Asmatikon, inevitably include the problem of melodic
transpositions among the Round notation sources and the comparison of the different
notational systems transmitting this repertory (Kastoria 8 Great signs and kondakarian
notation). As a result, up to fifteen neumatic rows need to be collated. Whereas tabulation of
all the extant MSS is workable in the standard format of a paper edition, the sheer quantity of
data to be compared and handled demands different solutions.This paper intends to present a
few aspects of the method applied during the designing and creation of a relational database
for the koinonika repertory. Regarding the Copenhagen Code as a starting point (N. Schioedt,
"A computer-aided analysis of thirty-five Byzantine hymns," in Studies in Eastern Chant,
II, London, 1971, pp. 129-154), the main focus is on the method of storing Round notation
neumes. The ultimate objective is to connect, for each chant, the texts, punctuations,
signatures, neumations, pitches and intervals, in such a way as to make the data accessible
for a variety of uses, enabling one to search for strings of sign-, pitch-, interval-combinations,
and facilitate the comparison of different notational systems. |
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Koinonikon 23 - MS Kastoria 8 - f. 40v (PDF file; 107 kB)
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Contact the author (Dr A. Doneda) at: |
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Links at Dipartimento di Scienze Musicologiche e Paleografico-Filologiche, Facoltà di Musicologia, Università di Pavia (Italy) | ||
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sites at "Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae," Institute for Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen |
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Revision: 29 June 2006 Copyright © 2000-2006, Annalisa Doneda and Louis W. G. Barton |
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