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Article: Chants for the Saints Cyril and Methodius in Neumatic Sources from the 12th-20th Centuries.
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- June 1, 1995
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In this reviewer's opinion Bozidar Karastojanov is the best connoisseur of the neumatic notation in the early- and late-medieval Russian musical manuscripts. His numerous studies are published mostly in Bulgarian musicological periodicals. This volume presents a special project of assembling all known neumated chants in honor of the two "Slavic Apostles," Cyril and Methodius, in all known manuscripts. This is, therefore, a most useful anthology, containing facsimiles and hand-copied notation of hymns in addition to a record of sources with texts but without musical notation.
For the benefit of readers unfamiliar with these saints it will suffice to point out that ...
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