Samopodoben Dóme Jevfráthov / Οἴκος τού Ἐφραθά: sonda do vývoja hudobno-liturgickej tradície
The Automelon O House of Ephratha / Οἴκος τού Ἐφραθά: A Probe into the Development of a Liturgical Musical Tradition

Summary/Abstract: Much scholarly effort was devoted to the historical development of language in the nineteenthand the early twentieth centuries, and this was one of the fundamental research topics inlinguistics. For several reasons, a similar phenomenon in music was not given much scope.One reason was the barrier of neumatic notation, which has been posing many challengesto this day. This paper is a probe into the development of the Byzantine liturgical musicaltradition, which has been similar to that of language in many ways. As the object of ourresearch, we chose a unique sticheron-automelon, O House of Ephratha/Οἴκος τού Ἐφραθά,whose development can be traced back to the eleventh century and reaches up to its current,living tradition. The aim of this paper is to introduce Byzantine hymnography and liturgyto the reader and lead him through the development of hymns with examples of selectedmusical sources. The analysis includes reconstructions of its earlier phases recorded inadiastematic neumatic notations.

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