Annie Bélis

Annie Bélis is a French archaeologist, philologist, papyrologist and musician. She is a research director at the French CNRS, specialized in music from classical antiquity, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Career

Former student of the École normale supérieure in Sèvres from 1972 to 1975, she passed the agrégation in ancient literature in 1976. Then, Annie Bélis joined the Fondation Thiers from 1979 à 1982. She finished her PhD during her last year at Fondation Thiers and defended it at Paris-Sorbonne University. The same year, she entered the French School at Athens (1982–1986). In 1986, she published her book Aristoxène de Tarente et Aristote ; le Traité d'Harmonique for which she received the médaille Georges Perrot from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. She got her first position at CNRS as tenured Research Scientist (chargée de recherches) in 1986 and is still with CNRS.

She is currently a member of the AOROC laboratory at ENS Ulm.

Musical studies

Annie Bélis learnt playing the piano with Yvonne Lefébure, the organ and counterpoint with Arsène Bedois, the flute with Serge Kalisky, and the cello with Jeoffrey Walz.

Research

Annie Bélis produced numerous papers on the music from classical antiquity. They goes from music theory, as her study on the Harmonics of Aristoxenus of Tarentum, rebuilding music instruments (Greek[1] and Roman[2] Kithara, lyre,[3] ...) or musical papyri decryption, as Oxyrhynchus papyrus n°3705,[4] Michigan papyrus n°2958,[5] or Berlin musical papyrus n°6870[6] where she established that the papyrus contains a Paean to Apollo due written by Mesomedes of Crete. In 2004, she published works[7] on a papyrus found at the Louvre Museum in an unusual. She established the papyrus contains a version of Medea written by Carcinos. This version is unusual since here Medea pretends she didn't kill her children unlike in the versions due to Euripides or Seneca.

Direction of the Ensemble Kérylos

At the beginning of the 90's, Annie Bélis created the Ensemble Kérylos with the goal to recreate music as it was during classical antiquity as faithfully as possible. Three parts are to be considered to reach such a goal : deciphering musical papyri coming from antiquity, part of her scientific work as a papyrologist ; reconstructing the ancient instruments needed to play the music, what she did based on archaeological fonts and with the help of French and Spanish luthiers J.-C. Condi and C. Gonzalez; and the last part, performing the scores, the reason why she founded the Ensemble Kérylos. In 1996, under her direction, the Ensemble Kérylos recorded a CD : " De la pierre au son : Musiques de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine ". In 2016, still under the direction of Annie Bélis, the Ensemble Kérylos produced a new recording, " D'Euripide aux premiers chrétiens ", basically a new interpretation of the scores of the previous CD to take into account progress in academic research on the field. This is the first recoding playing the Roman Kithara reconstructed by Annie Bélis and Carlos Gonzalez and the Paean to Apollo written by Mesomedes of Crete, in its corrected edition.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Bélis, Annie (2004). "De l'image à l'instrument ; reconstruction de la grande cithare grecque". Revue Archéologique (in French). Fasc. 1/2000: 203–207. JSTOR 41017430.
  2. ↑ Bélis, Annie (2004). "Reconstruction de la cithare romaine de concert : des sources écrites et figurées à l'instrument". Revue des Études Grecques (in French). 117: 519–544.
  3. ↑ Bélis, Annie (1985). "À propos de la construction de la lyre". Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (in French). 109: 205–226.
  4. ↑ Bélis, Annie (1988). "Interprétation du papyrus Oxyrhynchus n°3705". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (in French). 72: 53–63. JSTOR 20186791.
  5. ↑ Bélis, Annie (1996). "Nouvelle interprétation d'une partition antique (Papyrus Michigan 2958)". Revue des Études Grecques (in French). 106: X–XI.
  6. ↑ Bélis, Annie (2003). "Le 'Péan de Berlin' : une relecture". Revue des études grecques (in French). 116: 537–558.
  7. ↑ Bélis, Annie (2004). "Un papyrus musical inédit au Louvre". Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (in French). 148: 1305–1329.
  8. ↑ Bélis, Annie (2003). "Le 'Péan de Berlin' : une relecture". Revue des études grecques (in French). 116: 537–558.

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