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Byzantine chantUnison liturgical chant of the Greek Orthodox church from the era of the Byzantine Empire to the 16th century. It probably derived principally from Hebrew and Syrian Christian liturgies. A system of eight modes, very similar to the eight Greek modes, was used for psalms and hymns, each mode (or echos) consisting primarily of a few melodic formulas. The principal hymn genres were the troparion (one or more stanzas of poetic prose), the kontakion (a metrical sermon), and the kanon (a complexly ordered set of hymn types). See also Gregorian chant. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On the other hand, attempts to associate the system of tropoi with the eight-mode system of Byzantine chant, known as Octaechos, have been feeble and haphazard. Cappella Romana, 14th- and 15th-century Byzantine chants, Getty Center, $15 and $20. Thus was I initiated into the intricacies of Byzantine chant. |
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