Anastasia Shmytova presents “ The Earliest Forms of Slavic Polyphony: Troestrochie, Demestvo, Partes,” featuring a live performance by Demestvo, an ensemble that specializes in early Slavic chant and polyphony. Dedicated to the history, repertoire, and notation of the earliest forms of Slavic polyphony, this talk will contrast Troestrochie and Demestvo, native Russian forms of polyphony, with Partes, a Western-influenced, European style of polyphony that arrived in Moscow from Kyiv in the 1650s. How did these forms of polyphony build on the existing medieval znamenny chant tradition? And why did the European polyphonic style, partes, ultimately replace the native Russian styles?

This talk is part of the Russian Orthodox Church Musicians Conference, and will be held at the Marriott Princeton Forrestal.