Singers in Late Byzantine and Slavonic Painting |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Byzantine Choir | 14 |
The Illustrated Skylitzes Manuscript | 51 |
Singers in Death Scenes and in the St Nicholas Cycle | 72 |
The Polyeleos | 86 |
Christmas Hymn | 115 |
The Pokrov Bogomateri or Veil of the Virgin | 126 |
PostByzantine Hymnographic Compositions | 136 |
Glossary of Greek terms | 159 |
Index | 167 |
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Common terms and phrases
Akathistos cycle Akathistos hymn ambo Arsenije artist Athos Babić Basil II bishop Byzantine music cantor ceremony chant chanters cheironomic cheironomic gestures cheironomic sign choir choirmaster choral Christ Christmas hymn Church of St circa clergy codex Constantinople costumes Cozia Darrouzès deacons Dečani Demetrius depictions Dionysiou Djurić domestikos dormition of St emperor exaltatio crucis feast figures fourteenth century fresco Gračanica Greek icon iconography illustrations John Chrysostomus John of Damascus John Skylitzes kanonarchos Kastoria kontakion Late Byzantine lectors Lesnovo liturgical Markov Manastir menologion miniature monastery Moscow Museum musical narthex Nicholas Orphanos Novgorod oxeia paintings Palaeologan patriarch Peć Peinture Murale phelonion Philotheos Pokrov post-Byzantine protopsaltes psalm psaltai psaltai motif right hand robe Romanus saint Serbian Psalter Ševčenko sfiktourion shoulder embroideries singers singing skaranika skaranikon skiadia skiadion Sophia Source of Wisdom stanza 20 sung Sušica Thessaloniki tion Tomič psalter troparion typikon Velmans wear Xyngopoulos Žiča