Св. Йоан Кукузел — личност, твочество, епоха [Sv. Joan Kukuzel: Personality, Work, Epoch], Sofia: Sv. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2020. (original) (raw)
2020
Cover of the new book "Sv. Ioan Kukuzel: Personality, Work, Epoch" for the celebration of the 740th birthday of St John Koukouzelis, born at the Albanian seaport Durrës, one of the most famous musicians of Constantinople at the Court and at the Patriarchate, anachoret and hesychast at the Great Lavra of Holy Mount Athos. Content: His Holiness Neophit, Patriarch of Bulgaria and Metropolitan of Sofia. The Orthodox Liturgical Singing Tradition / 13 Svetlana Kujumdzieva. Introduction / 19 PERSONALITY / 25 Svetlana Kujumdzieva. St. John Koukouzeles – Musical-liturgical Innovations / 43 Lyubomir Ignatov. St. John Koukouzeles – a Measure of Singing Mastery in Eastern Orthodox Church Music / 77 Stefka Venkova. St. John Koukouzeles in the Editions of the Bulgarian Musical Union: Data and Interpretations / 91 Tatyana Ilieva. St. John Koukouzeles’ Character According to Dobri Nemirov’s Historical Novel “The Angel-Voiced” / 122 WORK / 123 Maria Alexandru. Towards a Corpus of the Kalophonic Mathemata by St. John Koukouzeles / 164 Klara Mechkova. Koukouzeles’ Wheel in the Light of Hesychast Theology / 176 Emmanouil Giannopoulos. Koukouzeles’ Heritage according to the Cretan Psaltic Tradition of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / 183 Stefan Harkov. Koukouzelian Heritage among the Bulgarians in the Middle of the 19th Century: Reconsideration of Some Lesser-Known Sources / 206 Nikola Antonov. The New Method Version of “Mega ison” by St. John Kukuzeleles or about the Continuity of Tradition under the Aspect of the Tone System / 223 Andrey Kasabov. Musical Creativity of Saint John Koukouzeles in the Bulgarian Printed Church-Singing Collections from the Middle of 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Ἄνωθεν ο ἱ προφῆται in ἦχος βαρύς / 237 EPOCH / 239 Iskra Hristova-Shomova. The Ochrid Menaion Between the Old Recension and the Norms of the Jerusalem Typikon / 263 Oliver Gerlach. The Generation around John Koukouzeles and the Re-Definition of the Constantinopolitan Tradition by the “Koukouzelian” Reform / 294
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