http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/byzantium/education-and-events/
The Heavenly Liturgy: Byzantine Psalmody to 1453
Friday 7 November
Dr Alexander Lingas, City University, surveys the development of liturgical music in Byzantium from its origins in the congregational psalmody of Late Antiquity to the ecstatic compositions of St John Koukouzeles and Manuel Chrysaphes in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A small ensemble of accomplished Byzantine cantors musically illustrate the presentation.
Supported by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise.
The Heavenly Liturgy: Byzantine Psalmody to 1453
Friday 7 November
Dr Alexander Lingas, City University, surveys the development of liturgical music in Byzantium from its origins in the congregational psalmody of Late Antiquity to the ecstatic compositions of St John Koukouzeles and Manuel Chrysaphes in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A small ensemble of accomplished Byzantine cantors musically illustrate the presentation.
Supported by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise.