A history of Byzantine music and hymnography
1998, 2nd edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #394532
ISBN: 0198161115
Physical description: 461 p; ill. ; 24 cm. Notes: includes bibliography and index. Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- VII. 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 -- 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 -- EXCURSES -- 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. Subject: Bla-brang-skal-bzang; Orthodox Eastern Church Liturgy History; Music, Byzantine; Music, Greek and Roman; Hymns, Greek; Church music Orthodox Eastern Church; Music history - Medieval; Hymnology.
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