The Kastoria 8 Asmatikon – A Middle Byzantine Enigma
The Kastoria 8 Asmatikon – A Middle Byzantine Enigma
Author(s): Gregory MyersSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Theology and Religion, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Centrul de cercetare şi documentare ŞTEFAN CEL MARE
Keywords: asmatikon; Byzantine Notation; hyperstases; kondakar; cheironomy;
Summary/Abstract: Since its discovery in 1965, the 14th-century Kastoria 8 Asmatikon has attracted scholarly attention. Distinguished by its two rows of neumes: a row of Middle Byzantine signs overlaid by a system of great hyperstases, its existence suggests that it bridges stages of notational development and chanting practices from an earlier period. Particularly noteworthy, its system of large signs could also provide a key to the Palaeoslavonic kondakarian musical notation which disappeared earlier in the 13th century.
Journal: Analele Putnei
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 337-347
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
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