"Reading Psalmodia: An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Notation." by David Melling

[greek487]

The late David Melling's booklet on Byzantine music theory and reading Byzantine notation, a book I enjoyed reading.

http://www.newbyz.org/psalmodia.pdf


According to http://www.byzantinechant.org/resources.html, "A very nice text, although sometimes ambiguous on certain points of theory or too "western" (and a few mistakes here and there)."


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[saltypsalti]

The late David Melling's booklet on Byzantine music theory and reading Byzantine notation, a book I enjoyed reading.

http://www.newbyz.org/psalmodia.pdf


According to http://www.byzantinechant.org/resources.html, "A very nice text, although sometimes ambiguous on certain points of theory or too "western" (and a few mistakes here and there)."


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When I came into contact with this book early on, it was on a website that had a very nice history summation of Byzantine music. Does any one know what happened to it?
JPP

 

[joel]

Are you maybe looking for David Melling's site? It can be accessed on the Internet Archive. I don't think there is much information there about history, however.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050204084202/http://www.church-music.co.uk/EOChant.htm