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This website contains more than 6000 pages of Byzantine music in Western and Byzantine notation in the style of chanting used on the Holy Mountain. The scope of this project covers the liturgies of St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great, St. James, and the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, as well as various doxologies, and hymns for Vespers, Orthros the Mysteries, and the Menaion. The words of the hymns are provided in Elizabethan English, Modern English, and Greek.

The Byzantine Music program at Hellenic College Holy Cross equips students with a mastery of the skills required for chanting the sacred hymns of the Greek Orthodox Church. It provides thorough knowledge of the psaltic notational system, the theoretical framework of the modal system, the ability to sight-read musical scores at all levels of complexity, and an extensive familiarity with the contents and usage of liturgical books and the rubrics of liturgical services. Upon completion of its requirements, students are able to perform all musical parts of the daily liturgical cycle and the sacraments of the Orthodox Church. Learn more >

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Like all forms of Byzantine culture, its music reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the Empire. The influence of diverse poetic and musical traditions, such as Jewish sacred music, Syriac chant, and western polyphony, are found in Byzantine liturgical poetry and musical manuscripts, and traces of Byzantine music are reflected in Western chant, Russian and Slavonic church music, and the many musical traditions of the Mediterranean world. Today, Byzantine chant is performed as part of the liturgy of the Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Churches. Reverberations of Byzantine music are also present in Greek folk music, popular musical genres, such as Rebetiko, and in the work of composers from Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky to Arvo Prt and John Tavener.

In this episode, our host Dr. Grammenos Karanos introduces Byzantine chant. Dr. Karanos sketches its defining characteristics, in particular its rhythmic structure, modal system, which shares much in common with Balkan, Near Eastern, and Middle Eastern music, microtonality, and formulaic compositional technique.

A conversation with Alexander Lingas (City University of London) on the debates surrounding the reconstruction of Byzantine music. We discuss the common origins of western and eastern Christian traditions, when they parted ways, and how both traditions passed through phases of reinvention. Why does the modern performance of Gregorian Chant sound so different from Byzantine chant? As the director of the vocal ensemble Capella Romana, Alexander comes at this question from both a performance and a research angle. His publications include 'Medieval Byzantine Chant and the Sound of Orthodoxy,' in the volume Byzantine Orthodoxies (Ashgate 2006) 131-150, and 'Performance Practice and the Politics of Transcribing Byzantine Chant,' Acta Musicae Byzantinae 6 (2003) 56-76. Stay tuned at the end for a recording of an imperial acclamation for John VIII Palaiologos.

The book contains a brief introduction to the history of Byzantine music, over 100 practice exercises with synoptic theory charts and graphical references, and includes a CD with audio examples to accompany the material found in the book.

The first book is Byzantine Music: Theory and Practice Guide. The Archdiocesan School of Byzantine Music currently uses this book as an educational tool in the context of the school's curriculum. Originally published in 2011, the Theory and Practice Guide is an effort to preserve and pass on the beauty of proper liturgical music in the tradition of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church. It contains a brief introduction to the history of Byzantine music, over 100 practice exercises with synoptic theory charts and graphical references, and includes a CD with audio examples to accompany the material found in the book. The text is written in English, while all of the original Greek terms are preserved with an English transliteration for those not able to read Greek.

The second book is The Musical Ark: An Ark of Hymnody of the Eastern Orthodox Church by Nicholas Roumas. The Musical Ark is a short anthology of ecclesiastical hymns that have been translated into English and set to music in byzantine notation by the author. This book is useful to cantors as it contains musical settings that can be chanted in services such as Vespers, Orthros, and Divine Liturgy.

In recent years, Panagiotis Neochoritis, protopsaltis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, has collaborated with early music personality and violist Jordi Savall on concerts and recordings, with his choir performing classical chant compositions in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall.

Despite the widespread parish-level perception in America that Byzantine music is not for choirs, choirs that concertize and record the repertoire are plentiful in the States, and represent virtually every level and configuration imaginable:

That absolutely does not mean that choral Byzantine chant needs to sound like, say, the Tallis Scholars, but neither does it mean that a monotony of big, dumb, loud singing is acceptable. We have models of stylistically appropriate choral sounds for Byzantine music, and those choirs spend time working to unify their voices, ornaments, and diction. Likewise, it will behoove us to rehearse, pay attention to diction, unification of our ensemble sound, and not let Byzantine choral singing be solo singing by multiple cantors singing simultaneously by accident. I grant that these skills perhaps do not come easily or quickly to experienced cantors who have rarely, if ever, been expected to sing chorally. And choral singers for whom it is not obvious that Byzantine chant is befitting of choirs have their own paradigm shift to make. It is true across the board that overall musical literacy is necessary, as is an ethos of improvement rather than inevitable decline.

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The Byzantine Empire existed from 330 to 1453 CE, varying in size over centuries with territories in Italy, Greece, the Balkans, the Levant, Asia Minor, and North Africa. While it was significantly influenced by the Greco-Roman cultural tradition, its culture was distinct and its influence is evident even today, especially in music, religion, art, and law of many countries. A cosmopolitan culture, the Byzantine music tradition was influenced by diverse poetic and musical traditions, such as Jewish sacred music, Syriac chant, and western polyphony. The other way round, the influence of Byzantine music is reflected in Western chant, Russian and Slavonic church music, as well as the many musical traditions of the Mediterranean world.

Historical sources show that music in the Byzantine empire was a part of everyday activities, like celebrations, feasts, theatres, horse races, games, receptions, and royal galas. Undoubtedly, Byzantine music had a rich tradition of instrumental court music and dance. One of the biggest legacies of the empire was the Byzantine chant, or unison chant of the Greek Orthodox church which is still performed today as part of the liturgy of the Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Churches. This monophonic liturgical music flourished during the Byzantine Empire till the 16th century. The chant is music for the voice with no instrumental accompaniment. It is monophonic, with no harmony, though there is an ison, a continuous base note. It is also made up of microtones, small, subtle gradations between the whole and half steps of the Western scale. Musicologists say that we are conditioned to hear the equally tempered instruments like the piano and that it is harder to pick up the microtones.

Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Christian parts of the population after the fall of the empire to the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

The term Byzantine music is commonly associated with what should more correctly be termed the medieval sacred chant of Christian Churches following the Orthodox rite. The identification of "Byzantine music" with "eastern Christian liturgical chant" is a misconception due to historical cultural reasons. Its main cause is the leading role of the Church as bearer of learning and official culture in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), a phenomenon that was not always that extreme but that was exacerbated towards the end of the empire's reign (14th century onwards) as great secular scholars migrated away from a declining Constantinople to rising western cities, bringing with them much of the learning that would spur the development of the European Renaissance. The shrinking of Greek-speaking official culture around a church nucleus was even more accentuated by political force when the official culture of the court changed after the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453.

Today, far too few sources and studies exist about Byzantine music on the whole. It is beyond doubt that Byzantine music included a rich tradition of instrumental court music and dance. Any other picture would be both incongruous with the historically and archaeologically documented opulence of the Eastern Roman Empire. There survive a few but explicit accounts of secular music. A characteristic example are the accounts of pneumatic organs, whose construction was most advanced in the eastern empire prior to their development in the west after the Renaissance. To a certain degree we may look for remnants of Byzantine or early (Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian) near eastern music in the music of the Ottoman Court. Examples such as that of the eminent composer and theorist Prince Kantemir of Romania learning music from the Greek musician Angelos indicate the continuing participation of Greek-speaking people in court culture. However the sources are too scarce to permit any well-founded stipulations about what cultural musical changes took place when and under which influences during the long histories of the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. Hypotheses that Turkish (Ottoman) music was influenced by Byzantine music, or the other way around, remain on the level of more or less consciously nationalistic or romantically motivated personal views, and are far too simplistic as to be of any value considering the breadth and complexity of cultures historically involved in these geographic regions. It seems more logical to consider that these influences were probably more manifold than it is possible to reconstruct historically, considering the breadth and length of duration of these empires and the great number of ethnicities and major or minor cultures that they encompassed or came in touch with at each stage of their development (Egyptian, Persian, Jewish, Slavic, Central Asian including Avar, Moghul, Tatar and Turkic, Roman, Greek, Arabic, other Semitic and northern African, Northwestern and Central European including Franc, Gothic, Vandal, Nordic/Viking, last but importantly not least south central Asian Gypsy, etc. etc.). The rest of this article confines itself to a discussion of the musical tradition of Greek Orthodox liturgical chant, and is reproduced from Dr. Conomos' text as cited at the end of the article