Amy Hogg
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Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your message. You are correct; there is a mistake in the score on the syllable ‘ther’ of “mother.” It should be a square to indicate a whole beat. I will work on fixing that.Regarding the notes of “set”—the extra notes you hear in the recording on the 1.5 beat ga part of the word are ornaments. In the Byzantine notation score for this hymn, these ornaments are not written out, so we did not write them out in the pictorial score. In classical scores of Byzantine notation (most scores fall into this category), ornaments are not written out and chanters learn to do ornamentation through oral tradition. This is why listening to good recordings is so important (or better yet, learning to chant next to a well-trained chanter).
Hello 101 students!
I’m teaching at a conference in Boston this weekend so I am unable to teach my 101 sessions on Thursday, Oct 8. Dina will bet teaching the 8:30 pm ET & 9 pm ET practice sessions tomorrow evening. Join her Zoom room for the practice session instead of mine.In Christ,
AmyHello 208 students,
Christ is Risen! I updated the link to the 208 spreadsheet and gave you each access and your own protected sheet there. Everyone had a gmail address listed for their contact except for Dunstan and Johanna. Without a gmail address, I don’t think you’ll be able to access the spreadsheet. If you have one, please email me privately with it.In Christ,
AmyThanks for letting us know. Hopefully it won’t continue. If anyone else is having an issue please let us know and Caleb, if it continues to be an issue please let us know again.
~Amy
I just put the sign-up sheet up for tonight’s Zoom session. Apologies that I forgot to do it sooner. If that’s when you usually come, please come then!
~Amy
Hello!
I recorded the Week 3 assignment/206 capstone project in a lower range than the recording that Father John El Massih did. Pa is pitched at A3. I’ve added the recording to the Week 3 homework lesson right below Fr. John’s recording. I’ll likely also add it to my Youtube channel as well.In Christ,
AmyHi Angela,
The interesting thing about the ajem is that it is technically only a localized symbol—meaning that it only affects one of the tetrachords. If it’s on a ga, the vou is a half step from ga, if it’s on zo, the zo is flat (when ascending and descending), if it’s on high vou’, it is a half step from pa’. Outside of the notes that it’s actually on we should assume Diatonic intervals. Since the ajem is on ga in the modal signature that still leaves the zo as kind of a loose canon (Diatonic Zo is very unstable). 🙂 If the melody goes to zo’ and the descends to thi again the Zo’ is flat. Does that make sense?~Amy
I was in Salt Lake City in 2019 but didn’t get to visit any churches. Your church is so cute and old. Am I reading the plaque on Google correctly, and that it was originally a synagogue? I see photos of a second iconostasis. Do you have a chapel in the basement? Cool baptism font too, btw.
~Amy
Hi Silouan,
You go to church with Susanna Howder and Judy Rose-Smith, correct? I’m not sure I put that together before now.~Amy
Hi Joanna,
You went to St. Nektarios in Charlotte this past weekend, correct? Did you chant with the left choir? Dina and I were chatting yesterday and realized we used the same communion hymn on Sunday morning. lolHi Angela,
So, you must know Niki P? Your church is so beautiful. Are you going to come to the St. George workshop at the end of the month?! You are so close! I’d love to get to chant with you in person but know that traveling can be hard or impossible sometimes due to health reasons.
~AmyThanks Angela!
Yes, that was a typo. I fixed it and also edited it so that hopefully it’s more clear.
