The School of Ecclesiastic Music

The Courses' Catalogue

The list of courses offered at SEM
with their content and prerequisites.

The credits of the diploma program at SEM are the following:

1. Parallage and Melos Courses

Code	Name	Content	Level
PAM101	Introduction to the Byzantine Music Notation 1	Exercises on the western scale 1	1
PAM102	Introduction to the Byzantine Music Notation 2	Exercises on the western scale 2 & the Gorgon	1
PAM111	Introduction to the 8 modes 1	Modes 1 and 5 & the Gorgon	2
PAM112	Introduction to the 8 modes 2	Modes 4 and 8	2
PAM113	Introduction to the 8 modes 3	Modes 3 and 7	2
PAM114	Introduction to the 8 modes 4	Modes 2 and 6	2
PAM121	The Diatonic Scale & the Gorgon Derivatives	Modes 1,4,5,7, and 8 in details and the derivatives of Gorgon	3
PAM122	The Chromatic Scale & the transposition	Modes 2 and 6 in details	3
PAM123	The Prolonged Styles	Prolonged chants in all modes	3
PAM131	The Derivative scales and the Arabic Maqams	The Derivative scales and the Arabic Maqams	4
PAM132	Byzantine Musical Ornamentations and Byzantine Prosomia	Byzantine Musical Ornamentations and Byzantine Prosomia.	4
PAM141	Introduction o the western music notation	Exercises on the western solfege.

2. Chanting Courses

Code	Name	Content	Level
CHO101	Introduction to the 8 modes 1	Modes 1 and 5 & the Gorgon	2
CHO102	Introduction to the 8 modes 2	Modes 4 and 8	2
CHO103	Introduction to the 8 modes 3	Modes 3 and 7	2
CHO104	Introduction to the 8 modes 4	Modes 2 and 6	2
CHO111	The Diatonic Scale & the Gorgon Derivatives	Modes 1,4,5,7, and 8 in details and the derivatives of Gorgon	3
CHO112	The Chromatic Scale & the transposition	Modes 2 and 6 in details	3
CHO113	The Prolonged Styles	Prolonged chants in all modes	3
CHO121	The Derivative scales and the Arabic Maqams	The Derivative scales and the Arabic Maqams	4
CHO122	Byzantine Musical Ornamentations and Byzantine Prosomia	Byzantine Musical Ornamentations and Byzantine Prosomia	4
CHO131	Diploma	(Given for each student alone.)

The content of each choir course will be different in each trimester. And it will end with a recorded CD.

3. Theory Courses

Code	Name	Content	Level
THE101	Introduction to the Byzantine Music Notation	Reading byzantine notation without the fthora.	1
THE102	Introduction to the western music theory	Introduction to the theory of the western music and introduction to reading the Greek language.	1
THE111	The Byzantine Styles and their derivatives	The Byzantine Styles and their derivatives	2
THE112	The Byzantine main scales	The Byzantine main scales	2
THE113	The Transposition	The Transposition	2
THE114	Byzantine Music Dictation Rules	Byzantine Music Dictation Rules	2
THE121	Theories of the Diatonic Modes	The gravity and the isson in the byzantine Diatonic modes.	3
THE122	Theories of the Enharmonic and Chromatic Modes	The gravity and the isson in the byzantine Enharmonic and Chromatic modes.	3
THE131	Theories of the Derivative scales and the Arabic Maqams	Theories of the Derivative scales and the Arabic Maqams (advanced transposition)	4
THE132	Exercises on the Byzantine Musical Ornamentations and the Byzantine Prosomia	Exercises on the Byzantine Musical Ornamentations and the Byzantine Prosomia	4
THE141	Diploma Project	Study Project on a Byzantine related topic.	5
THE151	Byzantine Music Composition	Exercises on Byzantine Music Compositions	6

Theory courses are usually delivered in the same classes are Parallage courses.

4. Additional Courses

Code	Name	Content	Level
ADD101	History of Byzantine Music	General history of the evolution of Byzantine Music	Any level
ADD102	Vocalise	Exercises on the correct way to produce the voice.	Any level
ADD103	History of the music in the world	An introduction to the history of music in general	Any level
ADD104	Quranic Tajwid	The correct pronunciation of the Arabic language	Any level
ADD105	Introduction to the Arabic grammar	Introduction to the Arabic grammar	Any level
ADD106	Typicon	Workshop on how to search in the liturgical books	Any level
ADD107	Introduction to Liturgical studies	Explanation of the meanings of the Orthodox services.	Any level
ADD108	Other courses	Topics that change every year.	Any level

The student has to choose 3 courses from these credits for his program.