Research
My
personal research effort (and, at first, with the help of associates*)
concerns the
field of the Greek Orthodox Church choral music or Byzantine Chant art
or Byzantine Music (BM). Although several years ago the BC was in my
mind just the year of 1996 was the starting of realization of my idea
with the preparation of a doctorate, with a very general title:
"Analysis of Byzantine Music member with
signal processing techniques." Since then that research continues
with God's help.
The basic guidelines of this important work are roughly as follows:
1) The discovering and naming of all the essential characteristics of Byzantine Music in terms of:
a) the acoustic physics,
b) the psychoacoustics,
c) the physiology of voice
d) musicology with respect to acoustics,
e) signal processing, and
f) of musical expression.
2) The analysis and synthesis of Chanting voice and melody.
3) The formulation of a full music intervallic theory in the light of new data generated by scientific research.
4) The construction of a model of development Chanting voice.
5) The adaptation of the functional voice model to the Chanting voice.
Past research on:
a) Byzantine Chant spectral analysis,
b) microtonal analysis of BC scales,
c) categorization of BC voices,
d) description of BC voices,
e) BC phonemic analysis, and on
f) the interrelationship between the various features.
The
current research effort concerns the study of the characteristics
of the Ecclesiastical Greek Othodox Chant and supported by
research program of ERASITECHNIS of the
University of Athens under the program THALIS.
Dr.. Dimitris Delviniotis
(*)
Thanks to the professor who supervised my doctoral dissertation on Mr.
Sergios Theodoridis and who worked with me, Mr. George
Kouroupetroglou.
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Dr. Dimitrios Delviniotis 