Original scientific paper

The Octoechos and the Beneventan Chant

Thomas Forrest Kelly ; Harvard University, Department of Music, USA

Abstract

The Beneventan chant, preserved only in fragmentary form, did not employ the eight-mode octoechos system known to us from Franco-Roman chant. Within a single set of musical procedures — we might say a single mode — most pieces end on what we transcribe as A, while some end a step lower, on G. Study of the surviving psalmody suggest the use of three reciting notes, on C, D, or E.

Keywords

Beneventan chant; modality; octoechos; psalm tones

Hrčak ID:

133546

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/133546

Publication date:

13.11.2014.

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