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IMC 2013: Sessions

Session 1521: The Pleasure of Music and Music for Pleasure in Late Medieval Eastern Tradition: A Greek-Ottoman Approach, I

Thursday 4 July 2013, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Achilleas Chaldaeakes, Department of Music, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Moderator/Chair:Achilleas Chaldaeakes, Department of Music, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Paper 1521-aSense of 'Pleasure' in Eastern Chant
(Language: English)
Achilleas Chaldaeakes, Department of Music, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Index terms: Music, Performance Arts - General
Paper 1521-bEntertainment and Phanariotic Song
(Language: English)
Thomas Apostolopoulos, Department of Music, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Index terms: Music, Performance Arts - General
Paper 1521-cChanter or Singer?: The Dual Role of the Same Person in Late Medieval Eastern Tradition
(Language: English)
Michael Stroumpakis, University Ecclesiastical Academy, Herakleion, Crete
Index terms: Music, Performance Arts - General
Abstract

It is taken for granted that Music plays a primary part in every kind of Entertainment. Speaking more specifically of the geographical area of the East (and much more during the late Medieval period, when we have a plethora of relevant evidence in the rescued literature and musicological sources), the two terms (Pleasure and Music) are almost synonymous. A reciprocating and interactive 'dialogue' develops, in a way, between the two terms (an ideological and philosophical, but also a completely fundamental and practical 'dialogue'): the musicians (the people who accomplish the musical task) channel in abudance and mainly secure the pleasure of the people who participate in any type of diversion through their presence and their performance; however, simultaneously, in order to acquire the ability to act this way (which means to bring the 'entertaining' dimension of music to prominence), they have to be in the position to experience music as pleasure themselves, to realise the multiple contentment which is concealed in every kind of music, deeply and internally. It has to do with equal number, high level conquests of the Spirit and the Art in both circumstances: the pleasure of Music and music for Pleasure! We would like to approach and set off this twofold dimension of the matter, in two teams (a Greek and a Turkish one), during two sessions of the present conference.