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Byzantine Music
Summary: The impact of ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire on Western music is underappreciated yet important. A detailed description of the different types of Byzantine music includes hymns and liturgical singing for religious ceremony, as well as secular music for imperial ceremony. Other musical developments during this period included the creation of musical notations and the musical influence of Emperor Justinian I.
Byzantine music, influenced by the Greeks, has contributed much to the Byzantine way of life, in and out of their churches, with their written pieces, and influences from some emperors and philosophers. Byzantine music has long thought to be an addition to the ancient Greek's music, but now it is thought of as an individual music culture. The word music descended from the adjectival Greek word muse.
Music was a daily part of every Greek's life from music performances at the Olympics to Greek drama. The Greek musical practice and theory was important in forming the basis of irreverent and sacred music of Byzantium. Although it is more similar to Western Christianity Music, then they do have their differences; for instance Western chants are based on psalms and scriptural text while Eastern chants are more based on non- scriptural hymns. Then the Byzantium's chant traits are common with...
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