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The past is always present : the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos
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The past is always present : the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos / Tore Tvarnø Lind.
ISBN
9780810881471 (cloth : alk. paper)
0810881470 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810881488 (ebook)
0810881489 (ebook)
Published
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xx, 241 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Format
Audio / Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 21, 2012
Series
Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities series ; no. 13
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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