The Sixth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Proceedings, 24–28 September, 2012, Tbilisi, Georgia, © 2014 (full version)

Booklet of the Sixth International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, 2012

 
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL POLYPHONY

Joseph Jordania (Australia/Georgia) – Comparative Study of Traditional Polyphony: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (p. 27–38)

Nino Tsitsishvili (Australia/Georgia) – Exploring the Beginnings of Love Songs in the Light of Early Human History (p. 46–51)

Jelena Jovanović (Serbia) – Rekindled Kaval in Serbia in 1990s and Kaval and Ney in Sufi Traditions in the Middle East: The Aspects of Music and Meanings (p. 60–69)

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GENERAL THEORETICAL AND MUSICAL-AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF TRADITIONAL POLYPHONY

Nailya Almeeva (Russia) – Formation of Vertical Structure in the Texture of Collective Singing in Baptized Peoples of Volga-Kama Region (Kryashen Tatars, Mari, Chuvash) (p. 75–86)

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Matt Harvey (Australia) – Political Polyphony (p. 95–99)

Barbara Ellison (Netherlands) – Sonic Phantoms (p. 106–112)

Nino Pirtskhalava (Georgia) – On the Interrelation Between Ebani, Bani and Bami (p. 120–126)

Gia Baghashvili (Georgia) – Antinomy of “One” and “Many” on Early Stages of the Aesthetics of Georgian Folk Music (p. 133–137)

Marina Kavtaradze (Georgia) – Monophony and Polyphony: Cultural-Historical Aspects of the Paradigmatic Changes (A View on European Polyphony) (p. 144–148)

Andrea Kuzmich (Canada) – Not a Revival, a Tradition of Revivals: Rereading Georgian Traditional Polyphony Trough the Ensemble Traditions (p. 154–159)

Tamaz Gabisonia (Georgia) – Dialectics of Second in Ethnic Music: Statics and Dynamics (p. 168–174)

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REGIONAL STYLES AND MUSICAL LANGUAGE OF TRADITIONAL POLYPHONY

Kae Hisaoka (Japan) – Structure of Authenticity of Polyphony and Musical Practices in Georgia (p. 182–186)

Su Wei, Wang Qi (China) – The Qiang’s Traditional Polyphony from China (p. 195–202)

Maria de São José Côrte-Real (Portugal) – Polyphony and Evolution in Fado Historical Recordings from Portugal (p. 208–212)

Mikhail Lobanov (Russia) – “Unison-Taking up” Singing – the Simplest Type of Collective Performance in Ethnic Music (p. 220–232)

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Anda Beitāne (Latvia) – Traditional Polyphony in the Officium Defunctorum in North-Eastern Latvia (p. 238–244)

Nino Ghambashidze, Nino Makharadze (Georgia) – Chvenieroba Festival and Traditional Music Related to It (p. 252–260)

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Rie Kôchi (Japan) – The Polyphonic Elements in the Monophonic Singing Styles of Ainu Traditional Music (p. 267–276)

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Maria de São José Côrte-Real, Rosário Pestana (Portugal) – Instant and Lasting Ornaments in Traditional Female Polyphony in Portugal (p. 284–297)

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Giorgi (Gigi) Garaqanidze (Georgia) † – On One Unknown Example of Ethnomusic Theatre (Zedashe Lullaby) (p. 305–311)

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Velika Stojkova-Serafimovska (Macedonia) – Multipart Singing in Macedonia – Some Basic Characteristics (p. 319–326)

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Eno Koço (Albania) – The Iso(n) – a Participatory Component in the South Albanian Multipart Unaccompanied Singing and in Byzantine Chant (p. 333–338)

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Matthew Knight (USA) – Hutterite Choral Singing on the Prairies: Sounds of Salvation (p. 345–350)

Victoria Samsonadze (Georgia) – Genre Peculiarities of Meskhetian Musical Dialect (p. 360–367)

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HISTORICAL RECORDINGS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC

Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vičinienė (Lithuania) – The Oldest Sound Recordings of the Lithuanian Folklore and the Recent Discoveries by Ethnomusicologists (p. 379–392)

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Žanna Pärtlas (Estonia) – The Functional System of the Seto One-Three-Semitone Mode: an Approach Based on a Distribution Analysis of Multitrack Recordings (p. 399–408)

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GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES 

Susanne Ziegler (Germany) – Recordings of Georgian Prisoners in Germany (1915-1919) (p. 418–424)

Gerda Lechleitner, Franz Lechleitner (Austria), Nona Lomidze (Austria/Georgia) – CD-Project: Recordings from the Caucasian Region, 1909 and 1915–16 (p. 433–440)

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POLYPHONY AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Bo Lawergren (USA) – Angular Harp (p. 447–458)

POLYPHONY AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

ROUND TABLE I 

Speaker: Polo Vallejo 

Modality of Medieval Georgian and European Music (p. 487–528)

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ROUND TABLE II

Speaker: Rusudan Tsurtsumia 

New Thinking about Evolution and Expressive Behavior – Polyphony as Part of What and How We Have Become (p. 543–552)