1st Edition

Studies on Eastern Orthodox Church Chant

By Svetlana Kujumdzieva Copyright 2024
256 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the compilation of the different practices of Eastern Orthodox Chant, looking at the subject through various languages, practices, and liturgical books and letters. The subject of this book is also analysed through newly found, unique material, to provide the entire history of Eastern Orthodox Chant, from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries and approached through a number... Read more

Studies on Genre

  1. Psalm 140: Versions and Redactions
  2. The Akathistos Once Again
  3. The Byzantine-Slavic Sanctus: Notes on Its Liturgical Context
  4. Studies on Liturgical Books

  5. The Tropologion: Sources and Identifications
  6. The Tropologion Vaticanus Graecus 771
  7. The Tropologion Vaticanus Graecus 2008
  8. The Notated Repertory in the Early Oktoechoi Revisited
  9. Studying the Oktoechos: From the Oktoechos to the Anastasimatarion
  10. Studies on Distinguished Men of Letters

  11. St. Cyril and St. Methodius: In Looking for the Roots of Slavic Orthodox Church Chant
  12. Metropolitan Theoleptos of Philadelphia: Between Tradition and Innovation
  13. Hieromonk Evstatie of Putna: The Putna Music School Revisited
  14. Metropolitan Serafim of Bosnia: New Findings in Graeco-Slavic Contacts in Balkan Orthodox Church Chant
  15. Studies on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Chant

  16. Melismatic Chants Related to Bulgarian Church Chant up to the Fifteenth Century
  17. Indications of Musical Performance from the Fifteenth Century
  18. "Bulgarian" Chants in Musical Manuscripts Revisited
  19. The Transition from Monophonic to Polyphonic Church Music: The Case of Bulgaria

Bibliography

Biography

Svetlana Kujumdzieva, Dr. of Sciences, is Professor of Medieval Music at the National Musical Academy "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" and Theological Faculty of the Sofia State University "St. Clement of Ohrid"; academician at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has published 12 monographs and more than 150 articles in Bulgaria, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, USA, etc. Kujumdzieva was an associate member of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, St. John's College, Oxford, GB, etc. She is a member of many national and international scientific organizations.