Kondakarian Chant: Trying to Restore the Modal Patterns
Kondakarian Chant: Trying to Restore the Modal Patterns

Summary/Abstract: The article intends a description of the modal system of the Kondakarian chant. This study probes to restore an internal structure of the kondakarian mode (glas) on the base of the modal patterns or glas-models. Kondakarian chant (or Kondakarnoie penie) is one of the most interesting and intriguing phenomenon of the Russian church singing of the early period which takes important place in Russian medieval studies. This notion implies the body of hymnography which is written in the book of Kondakar. Characteristic features of the kondakarian hymns are a melysmatic style and a special music writing – so-called Kondakarin notation.

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