A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography

A HISTORY OF BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOGRAPHY BY EGON WELLESZ FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE OXFORD SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1961 -iii- Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4 GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI KUALA LUMPUR CAPE TOWN IBADAN NAIROBI ACCRA © Oxford University Press, 1961 FIRST EDITION 1949 SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED 1961 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN -iv- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION STUDIES in Byzantine music have made remarkable progress since the SYSTEMation of the first edition of this book in 1949. The field of research has been widened by the inclusion of melismatic chant and other forms of liturgical chant which we had hitherto not attempted to decipher. On the other hand, the number of scholars working on Byzantine music has increased and there are more musicologists interested in Byzantine music as an important branch of Christian Chant in general. For these reasons it was not sufficient to reprint this book; considerable enlargement and revision have proved necessary. The sections which needed most expansion were those on "'Byzantine Liturgy'" (pp. 130-45), on the "'Poetical Forms' I" (pp. 191-7), and "'Byzantine Musical Notation'" (pp. 246-60, 271-84, 305-8). A new section on "'Melismatic Chant and Psalmody'", a new field in our studies, had to be added (pp. 329-48, Appendix pp. 40115). It was, furthermore, necessary to bring the 'Introduction' up to date (pp. 20-28). Minor additions were put together

A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography

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