The communion chants of the thirteenth-century Byzantine Asmatikon / edited by Simon Harris.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Harris, Simon (Simon John Minshaw), editor.

Series:

Music archive publications. Chant (Eastern and Western) ; Series A, v. 1.

Music archive publications. Series A, Chant (Eastern and Western), 1026-0935 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Byzantine chants.

Byzantine chants--History and criticism.

Genre:

Chants.

Notated music.

Physical Description:

1 score (xiv, 166 pages) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, [1999]

Language Note:

Greek words; introd. and critical commentary in English.

Contents:

Nos. 1-18a. Communions for the fixed and movable feasts of the year

Nos. 19-40. Communions for groups of occasions during the year

Nos. 41-64a. Communions of the Octoechus.

Notes:

"The chants ... are the earliest known examples of communion chants of the Orthodox Church ... which may go back to the rite of St. Sophia at Constantinople during the tenth century"--Cover p. 4.

Transcribed into modern staff notation; the original notation is reproduced above the transcription.

Includes bibliographical references: pages 163-166.

ISBN:

9057550113

OCLC:

42598766