The CERMAA is delighted to publish this video animation (below) of the chant Kyrie Ekekraxa, a well known composition by Petros Byzantios in the 19th-century Constantinople (now Istanbul). This animation relates to a performance in 2012 by fr. Makarios Haidamous, with the text in Arabic language. The audio was published in Amine Beyhom’s book on [more…]
New book launch from Amine Beyhom / Publication du livre d’Amine Beyhom sur le chant byzantin

New book launch from Amine Beyhom Publication du livre d’Amine Beyhom THÉORIES BYZANTINES DE L’ÉCHELLE ET PRATIQUE DU CHANT BYZANTIN ARABE (Byzantine Scales Theory and Arabian Byzantine Chant Praxis) ISBN: 978-9953-0-3048-7 To buy the book, please follow this link / Pour acheter le livre, clicker sur ce lien. English Amine Beyhom’s new book on [more…]
Français Le livre d’Amine Beyhom Théories de l’échelle et pratiques mélodiques chez les Arabes – Tome 1 est en accès libre sur internet. La version proposée (V. 1.01) a été revue et corrigée.Vous pouvez télécharger librement la version en basse résolution (impression possible à 150 ppp) à l’adresse : http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/?p=482. Bonne lecture… English Amine [more…]
English NEMO-Online No 2 : Contribution theme. Research groups CERMAA, ICONEA and PLM have the pleasure of calling for papers for the second issue of NEMO on the theme of ‘Modality in all its forms’. All papers welcome including Occidental forms of modality and should respect editorial terms and conditions. Papers to be sent to [more…]
English NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 is available CERMAA is delighted to inform you that the first issue, of Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 2012) is now available. It includes contributions of François Picard (France), Erik Marchand (France), Jacob Olley (Great Britain), Rosy Azar Beyhom (Lebanon), Markos Skoulios (Greece), Richard Dumbrill (Great Britain) et Amine [more…]
We published as today our second bibliography which specialises in the Systematist period.
We are proud to announce that we have started to implement the bibliography of Arabian and Mediteranean musics on Cermaa’s website. The first bibliography published to day is the Ꜥūd Bibliography, to be found under “Bibliography > Ꜥūd Bibliography“. It comprises a reasoned choice of references on the Ꜥūd, to be further enriched with [more…]
We use at CERMAA the following transliteration for Arabic language, used also for the book of Amine Beyhom on Arabian music : Transliteration of Arabic language into Latin languages C o n s o n a n t s Isolated Initial Medial Final Latin ا ا Ā – ā ء ٔ ٕ ʾ ب [more…]
New page for Amine Beyhom’s publications added on CERMAA’s website You can now download Amine Beyhom’s articles on the following page: http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/publications/publications-on-the-site/publications-amine-beyhom.
Reproduction de la préface de François Picard pour le livre d’Amine Beyhom Théories de l’échelle et pratiques mélodiques chez les Arabes – I : L’échelle générale et les genres – Tome 1 : Théories gréco-arabes de Kindi (IXe siècle) à Tusi (XIIIe Siècle) Une musicologie majeure La musicologie, ou étude scientifique, de la [more…]