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Title: Byzantinische Musik
Author(s): WOLFRAM, Gerda
Journal: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies
Volume: 48    Issue: 1-2   Date: 1996   
Pages: 89-98
DOI: 10.2143/JECS.48.1.2003127

Abstract :
Byzantine Music
This article deals with the history of and developments in Byzantine ecclesiastical chant: a.o. the rise of antiphonal psalmody, the kontakion, the kanon, the stichera and the taxis ton akolouthion. Attention is paid to notation systems and instrumental music as well.