188宝金博页面版

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the ASBMH page 668 A New Source for the Early Octoechos? Papyrus Vindobonensis G 19.934 and its musical implications Christian Troelsgård, University of Copenhagen Abstract: On the basis of palaeographical analysis, the first editors, Kurt Treu and Johannes Diethart, dated the hymnological codex Pap. Vind. G 19.934 to the sixth century. Enough modal ascriptions are found in this fragmentary source to make an analysis of its musical structure and to compare it with other early sources for the Octoechos system. Introduction: At this first international conference held by the American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology I shall touch upon both music and hymnography, focussing on a specific document that might tell us something on the formation and transmission of Byzantine chant in its earliest period. Though not as old as St. John Chrysostom, to whom this conference is dedicated, the source material shall address here is probably linked to a period from before the era St John of Damascus. Pap. Vind. G 19.934 was first published i 1993. 443 The publication was the last part of the project "Wiener christliche Papyri" that was initiated by the Vienna scholar Peter Sanz during the years immediately before the World War II, but due to his early death at the eastern frontier, professor Kurt Treu, working in Berlin, carried on with the project. However, due to yet another infelicitous event in the European history, the split of Europe in the era of the iron carpet, the work went on only very slowly by means of correspondence and on the basis of old photographs until, finally, prof. Treu was able to spend his last summer working on the original papyri in Vienna in 1991. When the publication appeared in 1993, prof. Treu had died. The ambition of the editors was not to deliver full description of each item, but to furnish a basis for further papyrological, philological, theological studies as well as studies in textual transmission. Musicology was not included in their list of disciplines potentially to benefit from the preliminary edition, and as it appears from the very brief comments on the modal ascriptions, this feature did not seem to have caught the interest of the editors. I shall, however, here try to explain why I think that this papyrus is an important document also for the history of Byzantine Chant and why it deserves to be included in the list of the earliest witnesses of the Octoechos system. The modal indication seen in fol. 1r (Fig. 1) most likely prescribes echos tetartos. The modal signature placed in the margin at the level of the third line of the hymn. The entire papyrus consists of a number of fragments that probably once made up seven folios of a 443 Kurt Treu† and Johannes Diethart, Griechische Literarische Papyri christlichen Inhaltes II (Textband und Tafelband), Vienna 1993 = Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erxherzog Rainer), Neue Serie, XVII Folge.