The First International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Proceedings, 2–8 September, 2002, Tbilisi, Georgia, © 2003 (full version)

Booklet of the First International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, 2002

GENERAL THEORY OF POLYPHONY AND MUSICAL-AESTHETIC ASPECTS

Izaly l. Zemtsovsky (USA) – Polyphony as a Way of Creating and Thinking: The Musical Identity of Homo Polyphonicus (p. 45–53)

Steven Brown (USA) – Contagious Heterophony: a New Theory about the Origins of Music (p. 66–78)

Joseph Jordania (Australia) – Multidisciplinary Approach to the Problem of the Origins of Choral Polyphony (p. 84–89)

Rusudan Tsurtsumia (Georgia) – Polyphony – a Category of Georgian Traditional Musical Thinking (p. 95–98)

Evsevi Chokhonelidze (Georgia) – On An Important Period of A Qualitative Shift in Georgian Musical-Aesthetic Thinking (p. 105–108)

Nino Pirtskhalava (Georgia) – Ioane Petritsi’s Philosophy and Georgian Polyphony (p. 119–126)

 

METHODOLOGY OF TRANSCRIPTION AND THE ACOUSTIC METHODS OF RESEARCH OF TRADITIONAL POLYPHONY

Simha Arom (France) – Recording of Complex Polyphonic Music by Re-recording Technique (p. 134–137)

Franz Foedermayr & Werner A. Deutsch (Austria) – Psychoacoustics and Vocal Polyphony (p. 144–159)

Oohashi Tsutomu, (Yamashiro Shoji), Nishina Emi, Kawai Norie, Honda Manabu, Nakamura Satoshi, Yagi Reiko (Japan) – Micro-Temporal Sound Signal Structure and it’s Function as Traditional Vocal Expression Around the World (p. 164–170)

 
SCALES OF GEORGIAN POLYPHONY

Malkhaz Erkvanidze (Georgia) – On Georgian Scale System (p. 178–185)

Stuart Gelzer (USA) – Testing a Scale Theory for Georgian Folk Music (p. 194–200)

Johan Westman (Sweden) – On the Problem of the Tonality in Georgian Polyphonic Songs: The Variability of Pitch, Intervals and Timbre (p. 212–220)

 
REGIONAL STYLES AND MUSICAL LANGUAGE OF TRADITIONAL POLYPHONY

Dieter Christensen (USA) – Vocal Polyphony and Multisonance in South-Eastern Arabia (p. 231–242)

Timothy Rice (USA) – The geographical distribution of part-singing Styles in Bulgaria (p. 251–265)

Tran Quang Hai (France) – Polyphony in One Throat (p. 274–283)

Nino Maisuradze (Georgia) – On Some Problems of Georgian Traditional Polyphony (p. 288–292)

Ketevan Nakashidze (Georgia) – On Polyphony in Georgian Funeral Songs (p. 299–305)

Vladimer Gogotishvili (Georgia) – On some Characteristics of Mode-Intonational Scales in Kartl-Kakhetian Long Table Songs (East Georgia) (p. 312–323)

Maka Khardziani (Georgia) – Formation of Three-Voiced Singing and Determination of the Type of Polyphony in Svanetian Traditional Music (p. 330–334)

Nino Kalandadze-Makharadze (Georgia) – On One peculiarity of Articulation in Georgian Polyphonic Singing (p. 340–349)

Thomas Hausermann (Switzerland) – Observations on Georgian Christmas Songs (p. 362–379)

Marina Kvizhinadze (Georgia) – Gurian Song “AGUNA” (p. 383–386)

 
POLYPHONY IN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Manana Shilakadze (Georgia) – On Regional Style in Georgian Instrumental Music /Svaneti/ (p. 396–401)

Nina Shvelidze (Georgia) – Georgian Panpipes Salamuri-Larchemi (Soinari) (p. 407–412)

Ketevan Nikoladze (Georgia) – On the Problem of Interrelationship Between the Forms of Polyphony in Vocal and Instrumental Music (p. 418–424)

 
POLYPHONY IN GEORGIAN TRADITIONAL SACRED MUSIC

Davit Shughliashvili (Georgia) – Georgian Chanting Schools and the Traditions (p. 432–441)

Manana Andriadze, Tamar Chkheidze (Georgia) – System of Chreli in Georgian Sacred Music (p. 450–457)

Ekaterine Oniani (Georgia) – On the Problem of Decoration /”Gamshveneba”/ of Hymns in Georgian Chanting (p. 463–469)

Marika Ositashvili (Georgia) – On Some Peculiarities of Georgian Old Professional Music (p. 476–480)

 

SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TRADITIONAL POLYPHONY

Nino Tsitsishvili (Australia) – The Soundy of Gender in Georgian Ethnomusicology (p. 488–494)

Tamar Meskhi (Georgia) – On Georgian Traditional Music in the Soviet Period (p. 499–507)

Marine Kavtaradze (Georgia) – Transformation of Traditional Musical Cultures within Typologically Foreign Cultures (p. 515–520)

Susanne Ziegler (Germany) – “Voices from the Past” – Caucasian Polyphony in Historical Sound Recordings from the Berlin Phonogram Archive (p. 528–538)

 

GEORGIAN POLYPHONY SONG AND ITS FOREIGN PERFORMERS

Nato Zumbadze (Georgia) – Georgian Polyphonic Song and its Foreign Performers (p. 547–551)

Frank Kane (France) – Learning Techniques for Georgian Singing Used By Georgian Choruses Abroad (p. 558–563)

Mikhael Bloom (UK) – Georgian Singing in the United Kingdom – Joys and Pitfalls (p. 571–576)

Richard Gough (Wales, UK) – Georgian Song in Wales and Beyond (p. 588–598)