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      Measuring intervals between European and “Eastern” musics in the 1920s
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      Measuring intervals between European and “Eastern” musics in the 1920s

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      The curious case of the panharmonion or “Greek organ” 1

      Measuring intervals between European and “Eastern” musics in the 1920s

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      The curious case of the panharmonion or “Greek organ” 1
      ByEleni Kallimopoulou
      BookTheory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 25
      eBook ISBN 9781315191461
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter describes the story of the panharmonion or Greek organ. It was a pipe organ with a keyboard containing 42 keys per octave, designed to accommodate the non-tempered intervals of Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical music or so-called Byzantine chant. Byzantine chant is a tradition of intermediate orality, where the written and the oral components have worked closely in relation to one another. The chapter attempts to contribute to the existing literature through a portrayal of Konstantinos Psachos as a transitional figure. His collaboration with Eva Palmer Sikelianos on the panharmonion captures a transitory phase in interwar Greece in which competing and, in some ways, overlapping visions, national and cosmopolitan, crossed and interacted. The case of the panharmonion suggests that the two sides were less oppositional and more porous than previously thought. The chapter discusses dominant paradigms in Greek music historiography that cast the musical question in terms of a clear-cut polarity between tradition and Europeanization.

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