The past is always present : the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos / Tore Tvarnø Lind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lind, Tore Tvarno, author.

Series:

Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities.

Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine chants--History and criticism.

Byzantine chants.

Church music--Orthodox Eastern Church.

Church music.

Music, Byzantine--History and criticism.

Music, Byzantine.

Athos (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

In The Past Is Always Present, Tore Tvarnø Lind examines the musical revival of Greek Orthodox chant at the monastery of Vatopaidi within the monastic society of Mount Athos, Greece. In particular, Lind focuses on the musical activities at the monastery and the meaning of the past in the monks' efforts at improving their musical performance practice through an emphasis on tradition.

Contents:

Introduction : toward an ethnomusicological study of Byzantine chant 1

Musical blossom

Sacred musical transorthography

Producing Mount Athos : Byzantine chant, pilgrimage and tourism

"The monks have prayer" : on the Athonite style of chanting

Spiritual silence, sacred sound

Conclusion

Greek glossary

Appendix A: Chain of psáltes : musical genealogy at Vatopaidi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-21608-7

979-82-16-20272-1

1-283-36212-0

9786613362124

0-8108-8148-9

OCLC:

768082447