{"id":12135,"date":"2021-12-14T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/jan-kukuzeli-the-genius-of-byzantine-musicology\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T14:26:22","slug":"jan-kukuzeli-the-genius-of-byzantine-musicology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/jan-kukuzeli-the-genius-of-byzantine-musicology\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Kukuzeli, the genius of Byzantine musicology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;Culture in 1 minute&#8221; \/ Episode 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jan Kukuzeli, the genius of Byzantine musicology - Episode #13\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g1dsTpxpVSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Kukuzeli was born in Durr\u00ebs at the end of the 13th century. After being orphaned by his father as a child, he grew up and was educated by his mother. At the age of adolescence, he moved to Constantinople, where he studied musicology under the patronage of composer Joan Glikis.<br>After astonishing the whole imperial court with his magnificent voice, he began to be nicknamed the &#8220;Voice of the Angel&#8221;, and was appointed as a psalter in the choir of St. Sophia Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Despite his fame in the capital, he turned to ascetic life and decided to live as a monk on Mount Athos, near the monastery of the Great Lavra. There he would express all his musical genius, creating wonderful melodies that revolutionized all Byzantine musicology.<br>Created the &#8220;Musical Circle System&#8221; or what will be known as the &#8220;Kukuzel Wheel&#8221;. He stood out through his style of composing, which was called &#8220;Kalophonic style&#8221; or &#8220;Beautiful singing style&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After his death, Jan Kukuzeli is revered as a saint throughout the Orthodox world and is remembered by the ecclesiastical calendar every October 1, the day when, according to tradition, he was separated from earthly life. Nowadays in many Orthodox churches and monasteries the compositions of the Durres musicologist, written around the 14th century, are still played.<br>The composer and musicologist, Edmond Buharaja, tells through the video of the series &#8220;Culture in 1 minute&#8221;, about the genius and contribution of Jan Kukuzel in the revolutionization of Byzantine musicology.<br>For more follow the video posted on the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><br><strong>Producer and narrator:<\/strong> Geri Emiri<br><strong>Historical information:<\/strong> Dorian Hatibi<br><strong>Video-Production:<\/strong> Arlind Veshti<br><em>This video was developed with the support of the \u201cMedia for All\u201d project, funded by the UK Government. The views and opinions expressed on the video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the constitutions of the donors.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em><strong>Photo on the head:<\/strong> From the published video.<br><\/em><strong><em>Reference<\/em>s: <\/strong>1. <em>Kisha Orthodhokse Autoqefale e Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb: Thesari i shenjtor\u00ebve. Tirana. 2004;<\/em><br>2. <em>Sina Kilica, Holta: Kodik\u00ebt ekfonetik\u00eb t\u00eb Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb. Tirana. 2019;<\/em><br>3. <em>Beduli, Dhimit\u0451r: Kish\u0451 dhe Kultur\u0451. Tirana. 2006. Page 30;<\/em><br>4. <em>Makarios, Hieromonaku: Sinaksari. Tirana. 2014. Volume 1.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Culture in 1 minute&#8221; \/ Episode 13 Jan Kukuzeli was born in Durr\u00ebs at the end of the 13th century. After being orphaned by his father as a child, he grew up and was educated by his mother. At the age of adolescence, he moved to Constantinople, where he studied musicology under the patronage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/jan-kukuzeli-the-genius-of-byzantine-musicology\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3899,3900,4301,4303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-in-1-minute-en","category-reportage-en","category-gallery-en","category-videogallery-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"formatted_date":"14 December 2021","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}