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- Major instruments used in Byzantine music included the Byzantine Lyra, bagpipes, organ, and the Greek instruments kithara and aulos.
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Other commonly used instruments used in Byzantine Music include the Kanonaki, Oud, Laouto, Santouri, Toubeleki, Tambouras, Defi Tambourine, Çifteli (which was known as Tamburica in Byzantine times), Lyre, Kithara, Psaltery, Saz, Floghera, Pithkiavli, Kavali, Seistron, Epigonion (the ancestor of the Santouri), Varviton (the ancestor of the Oud ...
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A vast variety of ecclesiastical music was produced and played in the Byzantine Empire. Consequently, a sizable body of religious musicgathered up during the course of the Empire’s existence. The most notable type of Byzantine religious music was the hymn which, in turn, was of three types. Akontakionwas a hymn that comprised of 18 or 24 strophes w...
Byzantine chant was one of the most elaborate pieces of ecclesiastical music in the Empire. The Byzantine chantdrew on the influences of Hebrew music as well as music from early Christian hymn-singing traditions. Most of the hymns composed in the Empire were vocal and monodic. While the Byzantine chant was simpler in musical terms during the early ...
Nearly no secular Byzantine music is extant today while a few samples of the religious Byzantine music survive. Based on this body of extant music, it is hard to surmise the exact range of musical instrumentsthat were used in the Byzantine Empire. However, what is known for certain is that two distinct types of Greek musical instruments namely the ...
Byzantine Music was produced in the Byzantine Empire from the 4th century until the 15th century.Byzantine music was influenced by Roman music traditions, classic Greek music as well as religious music traditions of Syriac and Hebrew cultures.Three types of hymns were a part of Byzantine music – the Troparion, kontakion, and kanon.Major instruments used in Byzantine music included the Byzantine Lyra, bagpipes, organ, and the Greek instruments kithara and aulos.Byzantine chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical chant of the Greek Orthodox church during the Byzantine Empire (330–1453) and down to the 16th century; in modern Greece the term refers to ecclesiastical music of any period.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Melodies written in round notation developed an aura of sanctity and became models for subsequent generations of composers. One immediate result of this was the appearance of new music books for soloists (the Psaltikon), for choristers (the Asmatikon), and for both (the Akolouthia).
The most important melody instruments belonged to the families of the lyre, plucked string instruments that included the kithara played by professionals, and the aulos, a cylindrical single-or double-reed wind instrument often played in pairs and known for its piercing tone.
More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature ans account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods.
Musical instruments found in Byzantine stringed ensembles were lutes, dulcimers, harps, lyras (also called kitharas), four kinds of tambura, the Cappadocian kementzes (Pontian lyra), the pear-shaped lyra and Byzantine violins. The organ that replaced the ancient hydraulis was still used.
