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Case
study No 001:
Good
TEMPO does NOT mean good Chronos
Lack
of Attack means WEAK = ASTHENIC CHRONOS
No
KATA RHYTHMON counting (no RUBATO in this
case)
=
MONOTONOUS, MECHANICAL singing
No
Parestigmenon on Analyseis = INSIPID, BORING,
NOT vivid
LISTEN
(click
here)
and
COMPARE
(click
here)
Why
search for paleographical arguments
on ISSUES that ONLY
ORAL
tradition can transmit.
Now,
the psaltic group "Romanos Melodos of Athens" ("Zoe "records)
do not use Rubato either... but they have
EXCELLENT attack.. Therefore, there is NO
sissy singing on the following interpretation
(Zoe-Romanos
Melodos Athens-Anastaseos Canon)
Many
acuse the above group as being too "military".
Let
it be known that in the ORTHODOX church,
when the hymns were of TRIUMPHAL nature,
the ARMY itself would be brought in to chant
as well, just to make sure that the TEXTUAL
CONTENT would be sung and UNDERSTOOD as
being of TRIUMPHANT, and of "military
nature".
Even if this should not
be to the taste of contemorary ears,
it
is of NO PROBLEM and it should be
of NO CONSEQUENCE
for the ORTHODOX
Church.
Now, notice how GKM and "Romanos Melodos of Athens"
chant this at a QUICK tempo.
This
SYNTOMON HEIRMOLOGICON MELOS compostion
is meant to be chanted QUICKLY
(but
not NEVROTICALLY either,
as OTHER sissy-singers
do on another extreme, with weak attack
as well).
If one wishes to chant
this hymmn as a KATAVASSIA,
one should
then use the CORRESPONDING compostion
(ARGON
HEIRMOLOGIKON MELOS)
Here
is what Iakovos NAFPLIOTIS,
who faught for oral tradition, had to say
about Simon
KARAS,
the Prototype
of contemporary paleo-ornitho-skalismatologists
cited
from www.analogion.com,
but CORRECTED by GKM
Angelos
Boudouris
His book: Musicological Memoirs
Summarised
passages by D. Koubaroulis
8 Feb 1939
"The
musical manuscripts of the library of the Protopsaltis, already
catalogued by Simon Karas, are shortly to be sent to Athens to be
handed over to the National Library of Greece"
(GKM: instead of
spending time LEARNING from the LAST dinosaur
of Psaltiki, IN, Simon Karas spent time
making catalogs of the future material he
was going to "ornithoskalismatise"
= chicken-scratch.)
§473
"Upon his return to Greece,
Karas received
two
photographs from the Protopsaltis - that
of the late Nikolaos Labadarios (Stogiannou) as well as
Nafpliotis' own photograph- in order that he might reproduce them photographically
and
take along the originals.
The teacher [GKM: == Iakovos
NAFPLIOTIS]
is of the opinion that Karas is an intellectual man
("logios") with a desire to work on matters concerning
our music, of which
he happens to be
a fan and supporter
("thiasotis kai
hyposteriktis"), a
lthough he
IS
NOT ACQUAINTED with it
("an kai den tin
gnorizei"). "
Therefore,
for those who believe in tradition,
when
someone of the calibre of
Iakovos NAFPLIOTIS,
who KNEW PALEOGRAPHY
as he had been taught
by
Nikolaos Labadarios Stogiannou
,
but who, despite his knowlege,
FAUGHT FOR ORAL tradition,
states that
Simon KARAS
is not ACQUAINTED
with PSALTIKI, it's no use searching for
PSALTIC TRADITION in KARAS'
students.
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