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The influences of ancient Greek basin and the Greek Christian chants in the Byzantine music as origin, are confirmed. Music of Turkey was influenced by Byzantine music, too (mainly in the years 1640–1712). [97] Ottoman music is a synthesis, carrying the culture of Greek and Armenian Christian chant. It emerged as the result of a sharing ...
[2] [3] However, despite its popularity, secular Byzantine music was harshly criticized by the Church Fathers. [3] [n 2] Like their medieval Western contemporaries, little is known about the lives of Byzantine composers. [5] Composers of sacred music, especially hymns and chants, are generally well documented throughout the history of Byzantine ...
During the siege of Constantinople, Heraclius formed an alliance with people Byzantine sources called the "Khazars", under Tong Yabghu Qaghan, now generally identified as the Western Turkic Khaganate of the Göktürks, [1] plying him with wondrous gifts and the promise of marriage to the porphyrogenita Eudoxia Epiphania.
Performers of Byzantine music (15 P) S. Byzantine singers (3 P) Pages in category "Byzantine music" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced; c. 810 – before 865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. [1] She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. [2]
Most academics trace the origins of Byzantine Akritic chivalric romance to the oral epic poetry of the ninth and tenth centuries. Greek scholar Sokrátes Kuyás (Greek: Σωκράτης Κουγέας) dates the earliest reference to oral epics of the tenth century to a speech given by bishop Arethas of Caesarea condemning the local αγύρται (ayirte, the Greek counterpart of troubadours ...
The Byzantine lyra or lira (Greek: λύρα) was a medieval bowed string musical instrument in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. In its popular form, the lyra was a pear-shaped instrument with three to five strings , held upright and played by stopping the strings from the side with the fingertips and fingernails.
The Rus' had an interest in removing the Khazar hold on the Volga trade route because the Khazars collected duties from the goods transported by the Volga. Historians have suggested that the Byzantine Empire may have incited the Rus' against the Khazars, who fell out with the Byzantines after the persecutions of the Jews in the reign of Romanus ...