Publications by Oliver Gerlach

The personal homepage of Oliver Gerlach

Index

• Books
• Doctoral thesis
• Master thesis
• Published Papers
• Reviews
• Workshops, Lecture-Recitals and Seminaries

Books

“The Musical Art of Memory in Byzantine and Western Chant —
The History of the Cherubim Chant as an Introduction into Comparative Studies of Chant”
will be released soon

“Studies of the Dark Continent in European Music History —
Collected Essays on Traditions of Religious Chant in the Balkans”
(Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2011) .

Doctoral thesis

„Im Labyrinth des Oktōīchos —
Über die Rekonstruktion einer mittelalterlichen Improvisationspraxis in der Musik der Ost- & Westkirche“
Doctoral Thesis (Dr. phil.), Viva 07/14/2006 (Humboldt University Berlin)

Master thesis

„Improvisation im Organum purum“
Master Thesis, Humboldt University, April 2001

Published Papers

“What exactly is Bulgarian Church Music?”
Paper 09/02/2019 at the International Musicological Conference “Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans” at the National University of Music Bucharest 2–6 September 2019 (to be published in the proceedings)

„Die Quellen des Kontakion als Zeugnisse einer widersprüchlichen Rezeptionsgeschichte —
Von den Stouditen, den Kondakar der Kiever Rus', den monastischen Asmatika und Kontakaria in Italien und Athos zu dem Oikematarion von Ioannis Kladas“
Paper 09/14/2018 at the Zehnte internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie 12.–14. September 2018, Wien (to be published in the proceedings)

„Versteinerte Improvisationen in der aktuellen Pflege osmanischer Musik—
Über die noch ungenutzten Freiheiten aus dem Geiste einer Tradition“
Keynote Lecture-Recital 11/17/2017 during the Annual Conference of the German Comitee of ICTM at the Popakademie, Mannheim (to be published in the proceedings)

“Oktōēchos and Multipart Modality
The Mainstream Byzantine Theory of Papadikē and the Oral Tradition of Italo-Albanian Communities in Sicily and Calabria ”
Panel 09/07/2017 together with Giuseppe Sanfratello, Maria Alexandru, and Christian Troelsgård during the International Musicological Conference “Modus–Modi–Modality” Nicosia, 6-10 September 2017 at the European University Cyprus (to be published in the proceedings)

“Communication in Music within Religious Ceremonies
About Music’s Pluralistic Potential according to Christian Kaden’s Communication Theory”
Paper 04/27/2017 during the International Symposium in memoriam Christian Kaden about “Music’s Pluralistic Potential” at the Medientheater of the Humboldt-University, Berlin (27-30 April 2017) (to be published in the proceedings)

“Competences in Italo-Albanian Multipart Song during the last 60 Years”
Paper 09/30/2016 during the VIII Symposium on Traditional Polyphony at the State Conservatory of Tbilisi, Georgia (26-30 September 2016), published in: R. Tsurtsumia J. Jordania, eds. The VIII International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Proceedings, 26–30 September, 2016, Tbilisi, Georgia. Tbilisi: V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory, 581–601.

„‚Osmanische Verfälschungen des nachbyzantinischen Gesangs!‘
Über die lange Geschichte eines Austauschs zwischen Oktoichos- und Makammusik und den ideologischen Diskurs darüber“
Paper 09/23/2016 at the Neunte internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie 21.–23. September 2016, Wien, published in: M. Pischlöger, ed. Bericht der Internationalen Tagung Wien 2016. Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie, 9.2. Brno: Tribun EU, 651–679.

“Petros Peloponnesios
About Authorship in Ottoman Music and the Heritage of Byzantine Music”
Paper 03/11/2016 during the Study Day “Greek Music and Culture in the Ottoman World” organised by Giovanni De Zorzi at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (DFBC) of the Venetian “Ca’ Foscari” University, published in: Porphyra—International Academic Journal of Byzantine Studies, 25: “Byzantium and Islam”—In Memory of Alessandro Angelucci (December 2016), 145-184.

“The Italo-Albanian Kalimera of the Parco Pollino in Calabria”
Paper 09/02/2015 during the Session Greater Europe and the Activity of the IMS Regional Association for the Study of Music in the Balkans of the Eleventh International Congress of South-East European Studies at the Chamber Hall of the Union of Bulgarian Composers, Sofia, published together with Gianni Belluscio in: South East European Studies in Musicology: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of South East European Studies & the 6th International Conference of the IMS Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans, Sofia, 31 August–4 September 2015, ed. Stefan Harkov, Bulgarian Musicology, 40:2-3 (2016), 69-85.

„Subalterne Orthodoxie in Süditalien
Über die Feldforschung in den Gemeinden der Italoalbaner (Arbëresh) und Italogriechen (Grikoi)“
“Субалтернское православие в южной Италии
О работе в общинах Итало-албанцев (Арберов) и Итало-греков (Грикои)”
Paper 10/03/2014 at the Achte internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie 1.– 3. Oktober 2014, Wien published and translated into Russian by Maria Pischlöger in: Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie — Bericht der Internationalen Tagung Wien 2014, ed. Martin Czernin, Maria Pischlöger (Brno: Tribun EU, 2016), 85-129; (Russian version) 131-172 .

“Magic Dance and Its Para-Liturgical Function in Southern Italian Arbëresh Communities”
Paper 06/28/2014 at the Tenth Symposium Mysticism, Magic and Supernatural in Mediterranean Music of the ICTM Study Group ‘Mediterranean Music Studies’ 27–29 June 2014 at Cambridge, Great Britain (to be published in the proceedings)

“Multipart-Singing in Paraliturgical Music (Kalimere)
in the Calabrian Arbëresh Communities of San Benedetto Ullano and San Basile”
Paper 09/12/2013 (together with Gianni Belluscio) published in: “Multipart Music: Individuals and Educated People in Traditional Multipart Music Practises” Proceedings of the Third Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music, Budapest, 2013, ed. Lujza Tari, Pál Richter (Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, 2015), 142-169.

“‛The Heavy Mode (ēchos varys) on the Fret Arak’ —
Orthodox Chant in Istanbul and the Various Influences during the Ottoman Empire”
Porphyra — International Academic Journal of Byzantine Studies 22 (December 2014), 82-95.

“Vater Stilijan – ein Mönch aus Bačkovo-Kloster:
Seine Persönlichkeit und seine Bedeutung für die bulgarisch-orthodoxe Gesangspraxis”
Article (together with Deniza Popova), in: Bulgarien-Jahrbuch 2012, 129-157.

“Crossroads of Latin and Greek Christians in Norman Italy —
Byzantine Italy and Reciprocal Influences between Greek and Latin Chant (11th-13th Century)”
Paper 06/06/2011, published in: “Crossroads — Greece as an Intercultural Pole of Musical Thought and Creativity”: Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference (Thessaloniki, June 6-10, 2011), ed. Evi Nika-Sampson, Giorgos Sakallieros, Maria Alexandru, Giorgos Kitsios & Emmanouil Giannopoulos (School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: 2013), 375-402 .

“Lost in the Oktōēchos Labyrinth —
The Wheel of Ioannis Koukouzelis, the Didactic Chant Mega Ison, and the Birth of Psaltic Art (ψαλτική τέχνη) and Kalophōnia in Palaiologan Constantinople”
Lecture-Recital 04/13/2011, Conferenze di Mercoledì (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Rome) (will be published soon)

“Byzantine Chant and its Local Traditions in Southern Italy before and after the Reform of Desiderius, Abbot of Montecassino”
Paper 12/10/2010, published in: Musica e liturgia a Montecassino nel medioevo: Atti del Simposio internazionale di studi (Cassino, 9-10 dicembre 2010), ed. Nicola Tangari (Rome, Viella: 2012), 229-247 .

“Religious Chant in the late Ottoman Empire — Between Petros Bereketēs and Hamamîzade İsmail Dede Efendi”
Paper 08/26/2009, published in: Papers read at the 15th Meeting of the IMS Study Group Cantus Planus (Dobogókő/Hungary, 2009. Aug. 23-29), ed. Barbara Haggh-Huglo & Debra Lacoste. 3 vol. (Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2012), ii:489-525 .

« Le Sanctus comme chant réligieux dans les diverses traditions méditerranéens »
Paper May 2009, Faculty of Fine Arts, School of Musical Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

„Über die aktuelle Tradition des einstimmigen bulgarisch-orthodoxen Kirchengesangs —
Oб актуалной традиции одноголосного болгарского православного пения“
Paper 10/25/2008 translated into Russian by Maria Pischlöger, Internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung zur Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie (Österreichische Byzantinische Gesellschaft, Vienna)
published in: Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie — Bericht der Internationalen Tagung Wien 2008, ed. Martin Czernin, Maria Pischlöger (Brno: Tribun EU, 2012), 161-195 .

“The Cherouvikon in Western and Eastern Chant Manuscripts since its Import into the ‘Missa greca’ at the Abbey St. Denis —
An Introduction into a General Approach to Comparative Studies”
Lecture-Recital for 2 hours with participation of Ensemble Ison 5/13/2008, 15th International Conference on Eastern Chant “Transmission and Reconstruction of Christian Ecclesiastical Musical Culture – East and West” (12th–15th May 2008) in Iaşi (Romania) (CSBI) (will be published as an own book)

“About the Import of the Byzantine Intonation Aianeoeane in an 11th Century Tonary”
Paper 12/12/2007, published in: Byzanz in Europa. Europas östliches Erbe: Akten des Kolloquiums ‛Byzanz in Europa’ vom 11. bis 15. Dezember 2007 in Greifswald, ed. Michael Altripp (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 172-183 .

“In the Labyrinth of Oktōēchos — About the Art of Memory based on the Koukouzelian Wheel
В лавиринте Октоиха — об искусстве мнемоники, основанном на Колесе Кукузеля”
Paper 09/08/2006 translated into Russian by Alexander Vovk, Internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung zur Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie (Österreichische Byzantinische Gesellschaft, Vienna).
published in: Theorie und Geschichte der Monodie — Bericht der Internationalen Tagung Wien 2006, ed. Martin Czernin, Maria Pischlöger (Brno: Tribun EU, 2012), 105-164 .

‛The older the singer the better!
On the role of creativity in passing down liturgical music from the 19th and 20th centuries’
Paper 08/25/2004, published in: Papers read at the 12th Meeting of the IMS Study Group “Cantus Planus” Lillafüred/Hungary, 2004. Aug. 23-28, ed. László Dobszay (Budapest: Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2006), 883-891 .

‚Praxis jenseits der Grenzen von der Theoriebildung – Zur „Komposition“ von Haltetonorgana im 12. Jahrhundert‘
Paper 10/12/2003, published in: Musiktheorie an ihren Grenzen: Neue und Alte Musik — 3. Internationaler Kongress für Musiktheorie 10.-12. Oktober 2003, ed. Angelika Moths, Markus Jans, John MacKeown & Balz Trümpy (Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 2009), 351-368 .

“Psaltes and Cantores in the Labyrinth —
On the role of creativity in passing down liturgical music since the 12th and 13th centuries”
Paper 08/03/2003, Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, at the Hochschulzentrum am Horn in Weimar
in: Oliver Gerlach, Studies of the Dark Continent in European Music History (Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2011), 53-78 .

„Mikrotöne im Oktōīchos – oder über die Vermittlung mittelalterlicher Musiktheorie & Musik“
Paper 10/13/2002, Conference of the German Society of Music Theory in Munich
in: Oliver Gerlach, Studies of the Dark Continent in European Music History (Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2011), 7-24 .

Reviews

“Review: K. KALAITZIDIS, Post-Byzantine Music Manuscripts as a Source for Oriental Secular Music (15th to early 19th century), trans. by KYRIAKI and DIMITRI KOUBAROULIS, Würzburg 2012 (Istanbuler Texte und Studien, 28), pp. 356, € 75, ISBN 978-3-89913-947-1”
Porphyra—International Academic Journal of Byzantine Studies, 25: “Byzantium and Islam”—In Memory of Alessandro Angelucci (December 2016), 189-193.

“Review: Gerda Wolfram – Christian Troelsgård, ed. Tradition and Innovation in Late- and Postbyzantine Liturgical Chant II: Proceedings of the Congress Held at Hernen Castle, the Netherlands, 30 October - 3 November 2008. Eastern Christian Studies 17. Leuven, Paris, Walpole: Peeters, 2013.”
Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014), 315-318.

“Review: Bucca, Donatella: Catalogo dei manoscritti musicali greci del SS. Salvatore di Messina. Rome 2013”
published 09/11/2013 at H-Soz-u-Kult .

Lecture-Recitals, Seminaries & Workshops

“The Byzantine Genre Kontakion and its living tradition within Orthodox Chant”
Laboratory 09/30-10/04/2019 at Department of Musicology, Filosofická Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského Bratislava

“Introduction into the Musical Traditions of il Sud within the Context of Subaltern Orthodoxy”
Lecture-Recital 06/14/2019 together with Maria De Filippo and Anna Stratigò during the Workshop “Minority languages in the Mediterranean: Grammatical aspects of language contact and language decline” at the Historische Sternwarte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

“Geschichte der byzantinischen Musik und ihrer Rezeption im orthodoxen Gesang”
Laboratory for Orthodox chant together with Deniza Popova and in collaboration with the Bulgarian-Orthodox Community Sv. Tsar Boris Pokrĕstitel Berlin (9-17 November 2018, WS 2018/19), Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Humboldt-Universität

„Sprachen bewahren“
Panel about endangered languages and Lecture-Recital 06/08/2018 with Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Tom Güldemann, Gianni Belluscio, Samuel Bellizzi, Alberto Bellizzi and Oliver Gerlach during the exhibition “[laut] Die Welt hören” (Haus Ungarn) invited by the Humboldt-Forum Berlin.

“Para-Liturgical Dance in Southern Italy:
Balkan Diaspora Communities and their Impact on the Mainstream Culture of il Sud”
Paper 04/17/2018 during the 6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe “Migrations, Carnival, Sustainable Development” 15–21 April, 2018 (Sinj, Croatia)

“Le kalimeret di Giovedì Santo a San Cosmo e a Vaccarizzo Albanese”
Paper 03/26/2017 during the Incontro annuale del Comitato Italiano dell’International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) 24-26 Marzo 2017 at the Museo internazionale delle marionette, Palermo, and at the Palazzo Sgadari, Mussomeli

“4 Lectures about Byzantine Music:
1: The Current Tradition of Orthodox Monodic Chant (1814-2016)
2: The Creation of the Constantinopolitan Hyphos and its Exegetic Notation (Ottoman Period)
3: The Creation of the Psaltic Art and the Syntheseis of the Papadike (Late Byzantine Period)
4: The Oktoechos Hymnography and the Asmatic Rite of Constantinople (Early Byzantine Period)
Lecture 09/19-20/2016 at Department of Musicology, Filosofická Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského Bratislava

“Alcune notizie metodologiche per una storia della musica a più parti”
Paper 09/29/2015 during the Convegno annuale del Comitato Italiano dell’International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) 29-30 settembre at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia

“Seminario di canto bizantino: Cantare per la madre di Dio
1. Introduzione allo sticherarico melos
2. Petros Peloponnesios: Doxasticon ottaëcon Θεαρχίῳ νεύματι”
Workshop 10/12–16/2015 with concert 10/17/2015, performed together with traditional singers of the village, at the church Santa Maria di Costantinopoli of Lungro (Calabria)

“Orthodox Traditions of the Balkans and the so-called Universalism of the Phanariotes”
Lecture-Recital and Workshop 09/15/2015 at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi (Istanbul)

“Initiation au Chant Byzantin:
1. Introduction au mélos stichérarique
2. Petros de Péloponnèse : Doxastikon oktaéchon Θεαρχίῳ νεύματι”
Workshop 07/9—13/2015 with concert 07/14/2015 at the church Sainte-Foy during the Festival « Résonances Romanes » at the Centre Européen et l'Abbaye Sainte-Foy de Conques (France)

“‹ Les chantres au lutrin › —
Autor de la Missa graeca“
Workshop and Lecture-Recital 02/9–11/2015 about the reconstruction and performance of the “Missa graeca” (Doxa en ypistis, I ta cherubin/Qui cherubim) at the Royal Abbey Saint-Denis, and the sources of the cherouvikon asmatikon at the Constantinopolitan Hagia Sophia—in collaboration with Jean-François Goudesenne, Charles Atkinson, Taghi Akhbari, Damien Poisblaud, and Marcel Pérès (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, Centre Félix-Grat, Paris)

“Zur Aufführung, Satztechnik und Intonation von Perotins Mehrstimmigkeit—
Gesangskurs zur Notre-Dame Polyphonie“
Workshop 10/3-5/2014 at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna

“3 Lectures about Turkey:
1: ’The Secrets I told Ali’—Sufism and Its Impact on Turkish Music History
2: The Community of Levantic Music Traditions
Maftirim Brotherhoods, the Universal Talent of Thief Petros and the Ottoman Court
3: Metamorphosis in Turkish Contemporary Music: From state-driven modernity to global reorientation“
Lecture 09/29/2014 together with Ferhat Arslan, at Department of Musicology, Filosofická Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského Bratislava

“Is it possible to analyze maqām pieces by the use of Simon Karas’ oktōēchos classifications?
The Koukouzelian Wheel and the transformation in transmission of Orthodox Chant since the Ottoman Empire”
Seminary 05/26-27/2009, Faculty of Fine Arts, School of Musical Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

„Der Vatikanische Organumtraktat und die Pariser ars organi—
Über die improvisierte Mehrstimmigkeit der frühen Notre-Dame Schule“
Seminary 10/23-25/2008, at Department of Musicology, Filosofická Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského Bratislava

“The Byzantine Psalmody as the Basis of the 13th Century Melopœia used in Constantinople”
Seminary 05/11-12/2007, at the Department of Musicology, Filosofická Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského Bratislava

„Der Oktōēchos im griechischen und im lateinischen Mittelalter“
Lecture-Recital 09/11/2006, at the Department of Musicology, Filosofická Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského Bratislava

« Devekout (la mort en s’embrassant) – Djalâl-ud-Dîn Rûmî et la cérémonie des derviches tourneurs »
Lecture-Recital 12/19/2005, Progetto Biblioteca Multimediale Calabrese: « Per il Liber Visitationis di Atanasio Calceopulo » Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università della Calabria (Cosenza)

« La musique italogrecque du XVe siècle - De la créativité des psaltēs et de ‘l’illisibilité’ des manuscrits »
Paper 12/19/2005, Progetto Biblioteca Multimediale Calabrese: « Per il Liber Visitationis di Atanasio Calceopulo » Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università della Calabria (Cosenza)

“Contrefacta of Byzantine Chant in Medieval Western Mass Liturgies?
Greek and Latin Versions of the Cherouvikon in Western manuscripts”
Lecture-Recital 07/17/2004, Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, at the University of Glasgow

„Pythagoras in Kleinasien und Italien — oder das Tonsystem als Labyrinth“
Presentation 04/28/2004 within the Colloque „Medien, die wir meinen“, Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität

« ‘Noi che misticamente raffiguriamo i Cherubini’ –
Les relations entre les traditions de la musique italo-grecque, beneventane et gallicane au moyen âge »
Lecture-Recital 12/19/2003, at Filologia Romanza, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università della Calabria (Cosenza)

« Les nouvelles formes poétiques dans la musique liturgique d’Aquitaine et de Paris »
Lecture-Recital 12/18/2003, at Filologia Romanza, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università della Calabria (Cosenza)

„Ton und Prozess in improvisierter Musik — oder:
Wie kommt der Wurm in meinen Kopf?“
Lecture-Recital 12/15/2003, in the Colloque Ton und Prozess, KIT-MaMuTh, Technische Universität Berlin