Emmanouil Giannopolous (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Byzantine music and its sources

Manuscript of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies in Thessaloniki, No 11, written by the monk Matthaios from Vatopedi monastery in 1839

Emmanouil Giannopoulos is assistant professor at the School of Music at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research on Byzantine music and its sources continues at Orient-Institut Istanbul with an Erasmus grant for a stay of one week. He focuses on studying the history, morphology and contemporary state of Eastern music and a comparative study with the Byzantine music. During his stay at the institute he will visit several archives for a systematic study of the relevant catalogues and a careful study of musical interpretation and observation of individual elements in relation to ecclesiastical and secular Byzantine music.