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 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 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…]
The scales of Byzantine Chant are very close, in performance and in Lebanon, to those used by the Arabian “classical” music (taught in “Conservatoires” in Lebanon). Mīkhā’īl Mashāqa, a syrian-lebanese medecine doctor and music theorist of the 19th century, claimed that the 68 division of the octave of Chrysanthos the Reformer (whom he did not [more…]
CERMAA co-organises in Brest (Brittany – France) in November 2011 a Conference on “Modality – A Bridge Between East and West” with DROM. Amine Beyhom will read a pre-Conference paper on General Modality, while Erik Marchand will explain, on this occasion, the Modal aspects of Brittany Music. Amine Beyhom will also read a paper on [more…]