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Department of Music Studies

FLORA KRITIKOU

Associate Professor

Section: Sound Technology, Music Pedagogy and Byzantine Musicology

 

Studies

2004

  • PhD in Musicology (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques)
  • PhD in Byzantine Musicology (Department of Music Studies - NKUA)
  • Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) Méthodes de l’Histoire et d’Archéologie (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Section des Sciences historiques et philologiques)

1995

  • BA in Social Theology (Department of Social Theology - NKUA)

 

Academic Career

2019

  • Associate Professor

2018

  • Permanent Assistant Professor

2014

  • Assistant Professor

2009

  • Lecturer in Byzantine Musicology - Department of Music Studies - NKUA

 

Research Interests

  • Byzantine Musical Manuscripts
  • Byzantine Music Palaeography
  • Byzantine and Latin chant in Venetian Romania

 

Courses

BA program

  • Notation of Chanting Art
  • Palaeography of Byzantine Notation Ι-ΙΙ
  • Byzantine and Latin Chant Relations
  • Βυζαντινή Μουσική σε Δυτικές σημειογραφίες
  • Seminar: Specific issues of Byzantine musicology

MA program

  • Byzantine Musical Manuscripts

 

Monographs

  • Τα Χειρόγραφα Βυζαντινής Μουσικής. Σινά Β΄. Κατάλογος περιγραφικός των χειρογράφων κωδίκων Βυζαντινής Μουσικής των αποκειμένων στην Βιβλιοθήκη της Ιεράς Μονής του Όρους Σινά [The manuscripts of Byzantine Music. Sinai I], Volume II, Institute of Byzantine Musicology, Athens 2021 [in collaboration with D. Balageorgos].

  • Τα Χειρόγραφα Βυζαντινής Μουσικής. Σινά Α΄. Κατάλογος περιγραφικός των χειρογράφων κωδίκων Βυζαντινής Μουσικής των αποκειμένων στην Βιβλιοθήκη της Ιεράς Μονής του Όρους Σινά [The manuscripts of Byzantine Music. Sinai I], Volume I, Institute of Byzantine Musicology, Athens 2008 [in collaboration with D. Balageorgos].

  • Ο Ακάθιστος Ύμνος στη Βυζαντινή και Μεταβυζαντινή Μελοποιία [The Akathist Hymn in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Composition], Institute of Byzantine Musicology, Studies 10, Athens 2004.

 

Publications (selection)

  • “The case of the musical fragment Sinai New Finds X414 (18th c.): a transcription - interpretation in the Kievan staff notation”, Enlightenment and Illumination, Proceedings of the Second International Conference Sacred Music East and West (Selection), International Society for Orthodox Church Music, Prague Czech Republic, 23-25 November 2018, Prague 2020,pp. 139-146.
  • “The Cretan Communion Chants ‘with verses’”, Liturgy and Music, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland 6-11 June 2017, Joensuu, The International Society for Orthodox Church Music 2019, 334-343.
  • “The compositions entitled ‘dysikon’ (Western) and ‘fragikon’ (Frankish): a working hypothesis on potential convergence points of two different traditions”, Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music, vol. 2, section II, Conference papers, 191-199, available in: http://www.isocm.com/journal-vol03.
  • “The challenge of writing new poetry and music: the case of the stichera idiomela by Manuel Chrysaphes”, Creating liturgically: Hymnography and Music, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music - University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland 8-14 June 2017, pp. 177-188.
  • “Abbot Sisoes’ lamentation: a composition with iconographical origins” in TheFifth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music, “Church Music and Icons: Windows to Heaven”. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland 3-9 June 2013, The International Society for Orthodox Church Music, Joensuu 2015, 126-137.
  • “The Embellishment of the Sticherarion by Chrysaphes the Younger as a phenomenon of renewal in the Byzantine Chant”, Tradition and Innovation in Late- and Postbyzantine Liturgical Chant ΙΙ. Proceedings of the Congress held at Hernen Castle, the Netherlands, 30 October-3 November 2008. Eastern Christian Studies 17,(2013)pp. 215-260.
  • “Kalophonic settings of Stichera Idiomela in Byzantine and Cypriot tradition: Points of convergence and divergence”, The International Society for Orthodox Church Music, “Unity and variety in Orthodox Music: Theory and Practice”, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland 6-12 June 2011, The International Society for Orthodox Church Music, Joensuu 2013, 82-98.
  • “Compositions of Credo: Influences of the Latin settings on the respective Byzantine ones of Cretan origin (16th-17th cent.)”, Cantus Planus, Study Groupof the International Musicological Society. Papers read at the 16th meeting, Vienna, Austria 2011, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Kommission fur Musikforschung, Wien 2012, pp. 210-218.
  • “The Byzantine compositions of the ‘Symbolon of Faith’”, in: Psaltike. Neue Studien zur Byzantinischen Musik: Festschrift fur Gerda Wolfram, Wien 2011, pp. 167-186.

 

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