• The 2022 Frances Densmore Prize awarded to NEMO-Online Chief Editor and CERMAA Director Amine Beyhom

    We are delighted at NEMO-Online and CERMAA to announce that Amine Beyhom, Chief Editor of NEMO-Online and Director of the CERMAA, was awarded the 2022 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society for his 2020 Dossier on the ʿūd in NEMO-Online. The award announcement stands: The Frances Densmore Prize is awarded annually for the best article-length publication in English that furthers the goals of the Society. The 2022 Densmore Prize is awarded to Amine Beyhom for his article “Was the Early Arabian ‘Ūd ‘Fretted’?” published in Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5, no. 9 (November 2020). “Was the Early Arabian [more…]

  • In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou Available in free pdf version here. Available in print version (paperback) here. Contents / Articles Andriana SOULELE THE CHORUS REFORMATION IN MODERN PERFORMANCES OF ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY AFTER 1945: The Suppliants (1964) of Iannis Xenakis and The Persians (1965) of Jani Christou … p.1 Apostolos PALIOS ANALYTICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE APPROACH: Yorgo Sisilianos’s Works for Two Pianos … p.19 Christina GIANNELOU MY 20 YEARS LIFE TRIP: Between Katy Romanou and Rena Kyriakou … p.43 Lampros EFTHYMIOU A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW AND COMPARATIVE STUDY: Musical-Poetical Structural Analysis of Greek Folk-Songs … p.67 Lorenda RAMOU KATY ROMANOU S’EXPRIME: L’oeuvre pour [more…]

  • NEMO-Online Vol. 6 No. 10 is online / Mise en ligne de NEMO-Online Vol. 6 n°10

    English NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of issue No. 10, with three articles by Amine Beyhom (English), Jean During (English) and Hanene Gharbi (حنان الغربي – Arabic). Amine Beyhom: “Further Analyses from the VIAMAP,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 6 10 |2021-11| p. 5–36. The article is a sequel to two already published articles, “MAT for the VIAMAP” and “The Lost Art of Maqām”, with 4 new video analyses and two explicative videos. “[With this article and analyses, the author has] opened a completely novel way of scientific enquiry in musicology.” Wim van der Meer Additional material: Video Analysis no. [more…]

  • NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE / NEMO ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou NEMO-Online would like to inform potential authors for the NEMO-Online Special Issue “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (below) that the deadline for submitting propositions of texts is extended till the end of March 2021. / NEMO-Online souhaite informer les auteurs potentiels d’hommages et d’articles pour le numéro spécial “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (description en fin d’annonce) que la date limite de proposition de textes est étendue jusqu’à fin Mars 2021. The Editors / Les éditeurs English Katy Romanou (Kaitē Rōmanou) was born in 1939, Athens and died in May 2020. She studied at Indiana University where she [more…]

NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Nos 8&9 available / Mise en ligne et publication de NEMO-Online Vol. 5 n°8&9

Dec 022020
 

NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Nos. 8&9 is now available for downloading and as hardcover (links below) / Le Vol. 5 nos 8&9 de NEMO-Online est disponible pour téléchargement et en version cartonnée imprimée (liens ci-dessous). All pdf articles in theses volumes are available individually at https://nemo-online.org/articles and bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ces volumes sont téléchargeables individuellement à https://nemo-online.org/articles et contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures. NEMO-Online Vol. 5 Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين p. i-xii NEMO-Online No. 8 (Vol. 5) Amine Beyhom: “The Lost Art of [more…]

New article/Dossier (Vol. 5 No. 8): The Lost Art of Maqām

Nov 302019
 

English [French translation below] NEMO-Online is delighted to propose Amine Beyhom’s sequel to the dossier “MAT for the VIAMAP” which was published by NEMO-Online in November 2018. The post includes four video analyses of maqām music. The first part of the dossier combines three previously published analyses which cover different aspects of maqām, and follow an order of growing complexity of the analysis which does not interfere with its performance. The first ever 3D video analysis (A Huseynî Taksim performed by Neyzen Tevfik) undertaken by the research center of the author is included. While the analyses in Part I of the dossier reveal [more…]

NEMO-Online Vol. 4 Nos. 6&7 Hard copy available / Edition brochée de NEMO-Online Vol. 4 n°6&7

Dec 142018
 

NEMO-Online Vol. 4 Nos. 6&7 is now available in Hard copy printed version / NEMO-Online Vol. 4 nos 6&7 est désormais disponible en version imprimée brochée.

NEMO-Online Vol. 4 Nos. 6&7 available / Mise en ligne de NEMO-Online Vol. 4 n°6&7

Dec 042018
 

NEMO-Online Vol. 4 Nos. 6&7 is now available for downloading (download link below) / NEMO-Online Vol. 4 nos 6&7 est disponible pour téléchargement (lien ci-dessous). All pdf articles in this volume are available individually at https://nemo-online.org/articles and bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume sont téléchargeables individuellement à https://nemo-online.org/articles et contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures. Note that minor changes in the layout may occur between individual articles and the binded volume, due to the harmonising of the layouts between No. 6 and No. 7 / Les changements [more…]

New article/Dossier: MAT for the VIAMAP – Maqām Analysis Tools for the Video-Animated Music Analysis Project

Oct 252018
 

English [French translation below] NEMO-Online is delighted to propose this new article by Amine Beyhom on notational tools and graphical analyses of melody and rythm. Musical notation has been reputed as disqualified for the analysis of “Foreign” musics since – at least – the experiments of Charles Seeger with the Melograph. It is nevertheless still used as the main analytic – and teaching – tool for these musics in most researches in musicology, and today in the teaching of these musics in autochthonous conservatories. Seeger’s experiments brought at his time cutting-edge solutions – and alternatives – to score notation but, [more…]

NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 and Vol. 2 Nos. 2&3 : Reissue 2016/12

Dec 042016
 

(click on the title of each article for the corresponding pdf version / cliquer sur les titres des articles pour télécharger les pdf). The redaction of NEMO-Online is pleased to announce the reissue of NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 and NEMO-Online Vol. 2 No. 2&3 as individual articles / La rédaction de NEMO-Online a le plaisir d’annoncer une nouvelle édition de NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 et NEMO-Online Vol. 2 No. 2&3 en articles individuels. Reminder / Rappel: NEMO-Online Vol. 3 No. 4&5 / is available / est disponible (November 2016). NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 Reissue 2016/12 : (all pdf [more…]

NEMO-Online Vol. 3 Nos. 4&5 available / Mise en ligne de NEMO-Online Vol. 3 n°4&5

Nov 242016
 

(click on the title of each article for the corresponding pdf version / cliquer sur les titres des articles pour télécharger les pdf). NEMO-Online Vol. 3 : (all pdf articles in this volume are bookmarked for titles, subtitles and figures / tous les articles au format pdf de ce volume contiennent des marque-pages correspondant aux titres, sous-titres et figures) Editor’s letter / Éditorial / كلمة الناشرين : Instrumental facture & Evolution of musicology and ethnomusicology / Facture instrumentale & Évolution de la musicologie et de l’ethnomusicologie /  صناعة الآلات وتطوّر علم الموسيقولوجيا والإتنوموسيقولوجيا NEMO-Online No. 4 contents / contenu / ملخّص : [more…]

NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 / is now available free of charge / peut désormais être téléchargé gratuitement

Nov 292014
 

Français Le Volume 1 (N° 1) de NEMO-Online est désormais accessible librement en téléchargement à cette adresse: https://nemo-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NEMO-Vol.-1-N°1-130929-V.-1.01-LR.pdf.   English NEMO-Online, Volume 1 is now available for free dowloading at: https://nemo-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NEMO-Vol.-1-N°1-130929-V.-1.01-LR.pdf.

NEMO No. 1 / available for purchase online (pdf version) / accessible en version pdf

Jun 022014
 

English Click on this link to go to the payment page for NEMO No. 1 (Vol. 1) at the price of £20.00 for the whole volume (in pdf format). Table of contents: Erik MARCHAND : “Une musique modale de tradition populaire en Occident – Tribune”, NEMO-Online 1 1 |2012-11| p. 5–10. François PICARD : “Back to modality. Musical Modes Revisited”, NEMO-Online 1 1 |2012-11| p. 11–18. Markos SKOULIOS : “Modern theory and notation of Byzantine chanting tradition – A Near Eastern musicological perspective”, NEMO-Online 1 1 |2012-11| p. 19–38. Jacob OLLEY : “Modal diversity in early Ottoman music – The case of makâm Sabâ”, NEMO-Online 1 1 [more…]

NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 is available / Sortie de NEMO-Online Vol. 1 N° 1

Oct 182012
 
NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 is available / Sortie de NEMO-Online Vol. 1 N° 1

English NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 is available The editorial Board of NEMO-Online is delighted to inform you that the first issue,  Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 2012) is now available. It includes contributions of François Picard (France), Erik Marchand (France), Jacob Olley (Great Britain), Rosy Azar Beyhom (Lebanon), Markos Skoulios (Greece), Richard Dumbrill (Great Britain) et Amine Beyhom (Lebanon ; France). The editorial and the summary page are available online. The hard copy (Price = 40 €) will be distributed by Geuthner, France and downloadable from December 2013. Français Sortie de NEMO-Online Vol. 1 No. 1 La rédaction de [more…]