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Laografia Paradosi Ekdosis Hellenic Folklore Culture. Byzantine Music and Hymnology – Music Teachers of Istanbul

Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire.

Originally it consisted of songs and hymns composed to Greek texts used for courtly ceremonials, as paraliturgical and liturgical music.
The ecclesiastical forms of Byzantine music are the best known forms today, because different Orthodox traditions still identify with the heritage of Byzantine music. When their cantors sing monodic chant out of the traditional chant books such as the Sticherarion and the Irmologion.

Byzantine music did not disappear after the fall of Constantinople.

Its traditions continued under the Patriarch of Constantinople, who was granted administrative responsibilities over all Eastern Orthodox Christians.

During the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, burgeoning splinter nations in the Balkans declared autonomy. or autocephaly from the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The new self-declared patriarchates were independent nations defined by their religion.

Christian religious chant practiced in the Ottoman Empire was based on the historical roots of the Byzantine Empire.

The music of the Patriarchate created during the Ottoman period was often regarded as “post-Byzantine”.
This explains why Byzantine music refers to several Orthodox Christian chant traditions of the Mediterranean and of the Caucasus. These chants are  practiced in recent history and even today.

 Byzantine Music and Hymnology – Music Teachers of Istanbul

The tradition of eastern liturgical chant was developed in the Byzantine Empire from the establishment of its capital, Constantinople, in 330 until its fall in 1453.
It is undeniably of composite origin, drawing on the artistic and technical productions of the classical Greek age and inspired by the monophonic vocal music that evolved in the early Greek Christian cities of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch and Ephesus.
It was imitated by musicians of the 7th century to create Arab music as a synthesis of Byzantine and Persian music. These exchanges were continued through the Ottoman Empire until Istanbul today.

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