Treatise On Byzantine Music

Author : Stephen Georgeson Hatherly
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ISBN 13 : 9781332583768
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Byzantine Music (Classic Reprint) written by Stephen Georgeson Hatherly and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Byzantine Music This work has to do with results rather than processes. It is not a Grammar of music, or so-called "theory;" still less is it a Method of musical composition. It is the amplification and completion of an effort made for the first time in English in the pages of The Scottish Review to clear up some of the difficulties which beset the student when confronted with Eastern music generally. Reasoning from what is better known to that which is less known, after discussing the formation of the musical scale, it passes in review the Gregorian system, a Western development of Eastern tradition, and proceeds to a full description of the old Greek diatonic genus, the chromatic genus, and the mixture of the diatonic and chromatic on which the bulk of Eastern music, now prevalent, is constructed. There are upwards of fifty unabbreviated musical pieces, ancient and modern, from Greek, Russian, Turkish, and Egyptian sources, given and fully analyzed: the way thereby being opened up for future musical composers who may desire to cultivate this vast and fertile, but hitherto unknown and unexplored musical field. Incidental proof is also offered of the Eastern origin of several of the supposed novelties in current Western music of the most advanced type. The student is requested, in perusing the work, to pass by no remark until its meaning is thoroughly comprehended. Also, excepting the fundamental 2:3 first principle of paragraph 8, on which the whole fabric is based, he is requested to take no single calculation for granted, but to verify each and all for himself. It will perhaps be found an advantage to read first the Summary in Part VI., and refer back to the different paragraphs as marked therein. A learned friend and great traveller, who it was hoped would have furnished an Introduction on the history of Byzantine art in its various branches, has, through ill-health and multiplicity of engagements, been obliged to decline the task. This is a cause of regret to the writer, with which his readers would fully sympathise could they guage the extent of the loss sustained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.