The Byzantine Chant
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Byzantine Chant is the music of the Orthodox churches located primarily around the Mediterranean Sea. Byzantine chant can be better understood with a look into the history of , characteristics of the chant, and it's relation to other Orthodox chants. Byzantine chant developed in Byzantium from th ....
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.... In modern practice the drone note may change to harmonize with its melody note. Recently, various efforts have been made to create a fully harmonized Byzantine chant, but these efforts seem to obscure and ruin the basis of the tones.
Byzantine Chant had an influence on, and is directly related, to other Orthodox chants. It is one of the basis' for all other Orthodox chant forms. The chants used by the churches in Serbia and Bulgaria are changed forms of the original Byzantine chant. In R ....
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