Melismatic Chants. 200 years since the First Printed Psaltic Collection
Day I – Monday, July 13, 2020
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9:30 – 10:00 Opening ceremony
Organizers’ welcoming speaches
Conferences
(Chair: Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD)
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10:00 Rev. Researcher Deacon Cornel Constantin Coman, PhD candidate 
“With these blessed Powers we too, men-loving Lord”: The angelic-human host and the praise of the Maker”
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10:45 Researcher Prof. Georgios Konstantinou 
“Petros Peloponnesios’ Anastasimatarion : from the tradition of the manuscript to the printed collection”
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12:15 Researcher Filotheu Bălan (monk) “The stages in the transition from the old notation to the New Method”
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13:00 Researcher Petru Pruteanu (hieromonk) “History and tipikon of the hymnographic Canon of Matins”
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14:00 Break
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16:00 Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD and members of the “Psaltira” ensemble, from “Aristotelis” Univeristy in Thessaloniki Practical course of classical Oriental music (I)
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17:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis 
Melismatic chants – practical course of interpretation (I)
(breaks and the length of the course will be established by the guest)
Day II – Tuesday, July 14, 2020
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9:00Assoc. Prof. Irina Zamfira Dănilă, PhD
“Papadic chants in manuscripts from the “Dumitru Stăniloae” Ecumenical Library of the Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina from Iași. Reprezentative authors and chants ” – lecture and musical examples by members of the “Floralia” Ensemble of UNAGE
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9:45 Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD and members of the “Chrysorrhemon” paleography team, “Aristotelis” University of Thessaloniki “On St. John Koukouzelis and papadic chants”
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10:30 Researcher Petru Pruteanu (Hieromonk) “Metamorphoses and innovations in religious worship. Outdated liturgical rules and practices”
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12:00Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD and members of the “Psaltira” ensemble, from “Aristotelis” Univeristy in Thessaloniki Practical course of classical Oriental music(II)
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13:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Q & A session (I)
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14:00 Break
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16:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Melismatic chants – practical course of interpretation (II)
(breaks and the length of the course will be established by the guest)
Day III– Wednesday, July 15, 2020
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08:30 Assist. Lect. Adrian Sîrbu, PhD “The melismatic chants in the Moldavian psaltic tradition of St. Paisie Velicicovski (middle of 18th. – middle of 19th. cent)”
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9:00 Rev Deacon Lecturer Sorin Mihalache, PhD
“Attention, prayer, chant. On the role of self-vigilance in the spiritual configuration of the inner disposition. Reflections on the borderline between neuroscience and the Philokalia”
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11:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Q & A session (II)
(breaks will be established by the guest)
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13:00 Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD and members of the “Psaltira” ensemble, from “Aristotelis” Univeristy in Thessaloniki
Practical course of classical Oriental music(III)
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14:00 Break
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16:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Melismatic chants – practical course of interpretation (V)
(breaks and the length of the course will be established by the guest)
Day IV – Thursday, July 16, 2020
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09:30 Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD Byzantine diagrams
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10:00 Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD and members of the “Psaltira” ensemble, from “Aristotelis” Univeristy in Thessaloniki
Practical course of classical Oriental music (IV)
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11:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Q & A session (II)
(breaks will be established by the guest)
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14:00 Break
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16:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Melismatic chants – practical course of interpretation (IV)
(breaks and the length of the course will be established by the guest)
Day V – Friday, July 17, 2020
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08:00 Archon protopsaltes Panagiotis Neochoritis
Melismatic chants – practical course of interpretation (V)
(breaks will be established by the guest)
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14:00 Assoc. Prof. Maria Alexandru, PhD and members of the “Psaltira” ensemble, from “Aristotelis” Univeristy in Thessaloniki
Practical course of classical Oriental music (V)
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15:00 Official closing of the event
Liturgic moment- „The service of the Akathyst Hymn”. Online broadcast of Byzantion Academic Choir (Iași) recordings from January 2020 in St. Nektarios’ Church in Iași (follow www.byzantion.ro for the link) 
