Entertainment and Phanariot Song
Entertainment and Phanariot Song
Author(s): Thomas ApostolopoulosContributor(s): Eirini Apostolopoulou (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică din București
Keywords: Ottoman music; Mismayes Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment; Byzantine musical semiography; Danubian Principalities;
Summary/Abstract: The present study analyses, for the first time, the relationship between Phanariot poetry (Phanariotika) and music preserved in manuscripts (collections called Mismayes) and printing anthologies with the help of Byzantine musical semiography, starting from the end of the 18th century until the second half of the 19th century. Produced by the Greek elite in Istanbul, but also in the Danubian Principalities during the Phanariot reigns in Wallachia and Moldavia, this repertorial corpus with an obvious entertainment function is investigated on various layers, from aspects related to the themes of Phanariot lyrics in relation to the social function of this music to technical aspects related to specific musical rhythms and modal structures (ēchoi and makams) etc. An important segment of the research deals with the categories of musicians who composed and performed this melange music, as well as the forms in which the repertoires in question were promoted at the courts of the Phanariot princes, in direct relation to musical practices at the Ottoman Court in Istanbul.
Journal: Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest
- Issue Year: 11/2020
- Issue No: 44
- Page Range: 259-279
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English
