Study Group “Music of the Christian East and Orient”

The IMS Study Group “Music of the Christian East and Orient” brings together specialists in different fields of Eastern and Oriental Christian Chant, such as Greek, Romanian, Slavonic, Syrian and Arab, Georgian, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, among others, in order to promote collaboration in long-term research concerning major topics in Eastern and Oriental Christian music, for example, modality, notational systems, dialectics of written and oral transmissions, music theories and didactics, performance practices, history, styles and repertories, historiographies, musicological analyses, editorial themes, epistemological issues, among others, allowing for multiple comparative approaches.

The study group was founded in Bucharest, Romania, on September 5 and 6, 2019, during the 8th International Musicological Conference, Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans, co-organized by the National University of Music Bucharest, and the IMS Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans. The study group is open to scholars working in any of the above-mentioned fields.

Maria Alexandru (GR)

For a report of recent activities, as well as older reports, see the IMS Publication Archive.