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Lind, Tore Tvarn�, 1969-

The past is always present the revival of the Byzantine musical tradition at Mount Athos / [electronic resource] : Tore Tvarn� Lind. - Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2012. - xx, 241 p. : ill., maps. - Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities ; no. 13 . - Europea ; no. 13. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : toward an ethnomusicological study of Byzantine chant 1 -- Musical blossom -- Sacred musical transorthography -- Producing Mount Athos : Byzantine chant, pilgrimage and tourism -- "The monks have prayer" : on the Athonite style of chanting -- Spiritual silence, sacred sound -- Conclusion -- Greek glossary -- Appendix A: Chain of ps�altes : musical genealogy at Vatopaidi.


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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Music, Byzantine--History and criticism.
Byzantine chants--History and criticism.
Church music--Orthodox Eastern Church.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Athos (Greece)--History.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: ML188 / .L56 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 781.71/900949565