Title A history of Byzantine music and hymnography / Egon Wellesz

Edition 2nd edition revised and enlarged Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1961

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) : plates, music Contents Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. A SURVEY OF STUDIES IN BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOGRAPHY -- I. Byzantine music -- II. Early work on Byzantine music and hymnography -- III. J.-B. Pitra and W. Christ -- IV. Later studies in Byzantine hymnography -- V. Later studies in Byzantine music -- VI. The deciphering of the music -- VII. The present state of studies in Byzantine chant -- I. THE ORIGINS OF BYZANTINE MUSIC -- I. The oriental hypothesis -- II. The composite character of Byzantine civilization -- III. The vocal character of Byzantine music -- IV. The legacy of the synagogue [a. Psalmody -- b. Hymns -- c. Spiritual songs] -- V. Conclusion -- II. THE SURVIVAL OF GREEK MUSICAL THEORY -- I. The principles of Greek musical theory -- II. The doctrine of 'ethos' in Greek musical theory -- III. Neoplatonic influences on musical theory -- IV. The Byzantine conception of music -- V. Music in treatises of Greek gnostics and alchemists [a. Gnostic formulae of incantation -- b. Greek alchemists on music] -- III. THE PAGAN BACKGROUND -- I. Absence of musical documents -- II. The attitude of the church to music in public life -- III. Ecclesiastical edicts against pagan music -- IV. The theatre -- V. The pantomime -- VI. Pagan feasts [a. Olympic games -- b. Maioumas -- c. The Calendae] -- VI. Instrumental music -- VIII. Musica perniciosa and the Christian ideal -- IV. MUSIC IN CEREMONIES -- I. Origin and development of the acclamations -- II. The performance of music in the ceremonies -- III. The organ -- IV. Use of the acclamations -- V. Function of the acclamations -- VI. The music of the acclamations -- V. BYZANTINE LITURGY -- I. The liturgies of St. Basil and of St. Chrysostom and the liturgy of the presanctified -- II. The community and the service -- III. The office -- IV. The liturgical books -- VI. EARLY CHRISTIAN HYMNS -- I. The pagan and Jewish background -- II. Synesius -- III. The Christian hymn with music -- VII. ORTHODOX THEOLOGY AND BYZANTINE HYMNOGRAPHY -- I. The character of Byzantine hymns -- II. The Orthodox church -- VIII. THE POETICAL FORMS: (I) TROPARION AND KONTAKION -- I. Troparion -- II. Kontakion -- IX. THE POETICAL FORMS: (II) KANON -- I. Origin and development -- II. The structure of the Kanon [a. The Resurrection Kanon -- b. Canticle and Ode] -- III. The later development of hymn-writing -- IV. Minor Byzantine hymnography -- X. BYZANTINE MUSICAL NOTATION I -- I. The two systems: ecphonetic signs and neumes -- II. Ecphonetic notation -- XI. BYZANTINE MUSICAL NOTATION II: THE NEUMES -- I. The three phases of neumatic notation -- II. Early Byzantine notation -- III. The system of middle and late Byzantine neumatic notation -- IV. The interval signs -- V. The 'Great Hypostases' -- VI. The modes -- VII. The intonation formulae -- VIII. The modulation signs -- XII. THE TRANSCRIPTION OF BYZANTINE MELODIES -- XIII. THE STRUCTURE OF BYZANTINE MELODIES -- I. Hirmi and Stichera -- II. Melismatic chant -- III. Psalmody -- XIV. WORDS AND MUSIC -- EXCURSUSES -- APPENDIX I. HYMNS FROM THE HIRMOLOGION -- APPENDIX II. HYMNS FROM THE STICHERARION -- APPENDIX III. MELISMATIC CHANT -- APPENDIX IV. TABLE OF INTONATION FORMULAE AND INCIPITS OF APPENDED STICHERA -- APPENDIX V. TABLES OF FORMULAE OF HIRMI IN THE FIRST MODE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF HYMNOGRAPHERS FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES -- LIST OF HYMNS. TROPARIA, HIRMI, KONTAKIA -- CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY -- INDEX Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Permanent CaOTSM Subject Music, Byzantine. Music, Greek and Roman. Hymns, Greek. Church music -- Orthodox Eastern Church. Music. Music MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. Church music -- Orthodox Eastern Church. Hymns, Greek. Music, Byzantine. Music, Greek and Roman. Musik Geschichte Gesang Kerkmuziek. Byzantijnse kerk. Byzantinisches Reich Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Music, Greek and Roman. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585303436 9780585303437 0198161115 9780198161110

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