Улога звучних записа у преношењу музичког предања: византијска црквена музика у Србији на прелазу векова
The Role of Sound Recordings in the Transmission of Musical Tradition: Byzantine Church Music in Serbia at the Turn of the Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this paper is Byzantine church music in liturgical practice in Serbia over the past three and a half decades, key figures and moments that influenced its development, as well as the role technology played in this process. During the renewal of liturgical life in the 1990s, our church environment began to question the existing state and searched for an authentic Orthodox spirituality. Thus, Byzantine chanting is slowly finding its place in worship services in the Serbian Orthodox Church. From the late 1980s to the end of the 20th century, which is the first period for the rediscovering and the rekindling of byzantine music in Serbia, learning was based on the live contact between small entusiastic groups of students and the teacher. In these days, listening to tape recordings coming from the monks of Mount Athos also played a crusial role for rediscovering this music. In the second phase, from the end of the 20th century, the rapid development of modern technologies meant that online teaching became the most popular way to access byzantine chanting. This paper analyzes the challenges, advantages and disadvantages throughout time of rediscovering and transmitting the chanting tradition.

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