Lykourgos Angelopoulos

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Angelopoulos performing in 2008

Lykourgos Angelopoulos (

Patriarchate of Constantinople
.

Life

Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos was born in

University of Athens. He took a diploma in the Macedonian Odeion of Thessaloniki. .[1][2][3] He was the protopsaltes (first cantor) at the Church of Saint Irene in Athens (first in the Metropolis of Athens). He was the founder and director of the Greek Byzantine Choir and professor of Byzantine Music at the Nikos Skalkotas Conservatory and at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in Athens. He was the director of the Children's Byzantine Choir of the Archbishopric of Athens since its foundation and the director of the School of Byzantine Music for the Metropolis of Elis and Olena and the Metropolis of Rethymno and Avlopotamou.[4][5]

Works

Lykourgos Angelopoulos had published his own editions according to the re-introduction of signs taken from Late Byzantine notation. Simon Karas translated them within the rhythmic context of Neo-Byzantine notation as ornaments.

neumatic notation in his own hand-written chant editions.[b] In a contribution to a musicological conference at Delphi (1986), Lykourgos Angelopoulos explained his attitude to the living tradition and to the New Method in general, and editions based on Simon Karas' Method in particular.[c]He died at the age of 73 on 18 May 2014.[8]

International collaboration

He had collaborated with the Athens Radio Broadcast on programs related to Byzantine Music and had performed contemporary music composed by M. Adamis, D. Terzakis and K. Sfetsas. He was a member of the research team headed by Marcel Pérès in France, which studies the old Western chants and their relationship to the Byzantine ones. He had performed Byzantine, Old Roman, Ambrosian and other traditions of Western plainchant in recordings with the Ensemble Organum in France.

Honours

In 1994 Lykourgos Angelopoulos was honored by the

Diocese of Patras
in Greece.

Influence on the living tradition

Lykourgos had especially influenced Georgios Konstantinou, who proposed a notation for microtonal shifts (melodic attraction) and notated details, which had previously been part of oral tradition.[d] The advantage of the oral tradition is that only those singers who had been introduced by their masters, followed a certain local tradition. The Balkans and the Orient are still rich of these local traditions. Lykourgos Angelopoulos was well known for his international collaborations, e.g. with Divna Ljubojević, and as a charismatic singer who had a large following. He had faced strong opposition among psaltes who belong to these local traditions.[e]

Works

Essays

  • Angelopoulos, Lykourgos (1986). Terzopoulos, Konstantinos (ed.). The Importance of Simon Karas' Research and Teaching Regarding the Taxonomy and Transcription of the Effect of the Signs of Cheironomy: Oral Interpretation of the Written Interpretation. Translation of Angelopoulos' contribution at the Delphi Musicological Conference, 4–7 September 1986. Psaltiki Journal. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  • "Η τεχνική του ισοκρατήματος στη νεώτερη μουσική πραξή". Athens: Lykourgos Angelopoulos. 12 November 2000. Retrieved 3 February 2013.

Interpretations

Fieldwork

Portraits

Workshop

  • Angelopoulos, Lykourgos; Alexander Lingas (translator) (2008). "Organizing a Byzantine Choir (90 min)". Second Symposium on Byzantine Music Education (2008). Axion Estin Foundation. Retrieved 3 February 2013. {{cite web}}: |author2= has generic name (help)

Controversies about the Karas School

Notes

  1. ^ A manual published by Georgios Konstantinou was supposed to explain the signs, used in Angelopoulos' editions, to his students.[6]
  2. ^ In a video of Petros Peloponnesios' short version (Doxastarion syntomon) of the Doxastikon oktaechon Θεαρχίῳ νεύματι, we can follow his choir with Angelopoulos' edition using Karas' extended neume notation.[7]
  3. ^ See Angelopoulos' contribution to the Delphi conference (1986).
  4. ^ See the examples in his manual (1997).
  5. ^ For example, issues were raised regarding Karas's extended notation[9] and George Michalakis wrote extended polemics against it as well.[10] see also his excerpts of Angelopoulos' paper in 2002.nd Georgios Michalakis' polemics, who had a point of view influenced by Iakovos Nafpliotis and the Old Patriarchal School, might serve as two examples of the controversy surrounding Simon Karas' Method.

References

  1. ^ "Λυκούργος Αγγελόπουλος, Άρχων Πρωτοψάλτης της Αγιωτάτης Αρχιεπισκοπής Κων/πόλεως & ιδρυτής της Ελληνικής Βυζαντινής Χορωδίας († 2014)" [Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Archon Protopsaltis to the All Holy Archbishop of Constantinople and Founder of the Greek Byzantine Choir († 2014)]. Πεμπτουσία. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  2. ^ "Ελληνική Βυζαντινή Χορωδία (ΕΛΒΥΧ) / The Greek Byzantine Choir". analogion.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  3. ^ "Πρόγραμμα-πρόσκληση Αγγελόπουλος - Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών" [Program Invitation Angelopoulos - Faculty of Music Studies] (PDF). www.mus.auth.gr. Τμήμα Καλών Τεχνών του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης - Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών. 2013-04-23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-15.
  4. ^ "Σίγησε η φωνή του Λυκούργου Αγγελόπουλου" [Silenced: The Voice of Lykourgos Angelopoulos]. ΔΟΓΜΑ (in Greek). 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  5. ^ "Σίγησε η φωνή του Λυκούργου Αγγελόπουλου" [Silenced: The Voice of Lykourgos Angelopoulos]. ProtoThema (in Greek). 2014-05-20. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  6. ^ Κωνσταντίνου, Γεώργιος Ν. (1997). Θεωρία καί Πράξη τῆς Ἐκκλησιαστικῆς Μουσικῆς [Praxis of Ecclesiastical Music] (in Greek). Athens: Νεκτάριος Δ. Παναγόπουλος.
  7. ^ Petros Peleponneseios, arr. Lykourgos Angelopoulos, performed with the Greek Byzantine Choir. Θεαρχίω νεύματι [With a sign by the authority of God] (in Ancient Greek). YouTube, licensed by WMG (on behalf of Milan Records); UMPG Publishing, SOLAR Music Rights Management, and 8 Music Rights Societies. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  8. ^ "Σίγησε η φωνή του Λυκούργου Αγγελόπουλου" (in Greek). www.dogma.gr. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  9. ^ a"Σχολή Σίμωνος Καράς" [The School of Simon Karas]. Analogion. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  10. ^ "Analogion Page about Karas School commented by Georgios Michalakis with further links". Georgios K. Michalakis. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
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